This is a cool idea. I'll give it a try and see if I can make it work for me. One thing missing is the switches for "replace mode" you mentioned. I'll comb through the manpage of course...
Thanks, -Clint On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Greg Deback (rsync) < [email protected]> wrote: > If you really want to have a destination tree that looks like : > current -> 2012-07-22 > 2012-07-22/ > 2012-07-21/ > > with the current symlink pointing to the latest backup, you can manage to > do it in two passes : > 1. Create an empty directory '2012-07-22/' and the 'current' symlink > pointing to it (relative path), and rsync it to the final destination in > "replace" mode (ie. update, no deletion) with symlink on (-l). This will > replace the existing 'current' symlink in the destination folder. > 2. Rsync (-Ha or -Haz) your src folder to 'current/' or to '2012-07-22/' > (leave the trailing slash) > Greg > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Clint Olsen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Ok, that is helpful. As you can guess based on my question, it would be >> nice if all the automation can be done on the client side rather than >> having some specialized scripting on the receiving side to manage >> directories and symlinks etc. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -Clint >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Greg Deback (rsync) < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> As for the destination directory and the backup directory >>> (--backup-dir), rsync will create the missing subdirectory (one level below >>> the existing dir only), so yes for /<somedir-exists>/<newdir-with-date>, no >>> for /<somedir-exists>/<newdir-with-year>/<newdir-with-month> on january >>> 1st... But if you want this dir to be a symlink, you can't. >>> >>> Greg >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Clint Olsen <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> I've been very interested in these discussions and uses of rsync as a >>>> "clone" of Time Machine. A couple of things have been keeping me from a >>>> fully automated solution. I'd like to eliminate the need for Samba/NFS >>>> mounts of any kind, because they have proven to be unreliable for me and >>>> under some operating environments (Cygwin) it breaks --link-dest. In most >>>> of the articles I've read, a target "date" directory is created with some >>>> sort of "latest" symlink for the --link-dest parameter. I can accomplish >>>> those tasks via remote ssh commands, but I was hoping there was a better >>>> way. For example, is there any circumstance where you can coax rsync into >>>> creating a target directory that's not there already? >>>> >>>> % rsync <source> user@nas::module/<somedir-exists>/<newdir-with-date> >>>> >>>> So, newdir-with-date doesn't exist (yet). I would like to have rsync >>>> create it for me. Is that even possible? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> -Clint >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing >>>> list. >>>> To unsubscribe or change options: >>>> https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync >>>> Before posting, read: >>>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >>>> >>> >>> >> >
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