readlink works on aix through the ibm toolkit package of coreutils. I will reevaluate the script tomorrow as its late here at work and im not functioning at 100% capacity.
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Kevin Korb <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Either you are completely not getting the concept or your OS is not > capable of this functionality. I haven't touched AIX since 1995 so I > can't really say which. > > So, again, I am suggesting you try rsnapshot. Either it will fail and > prove that AIX can't do this or it will give you a functioning example > of this backup concept to look at and decide if you want to do it > differently. > > On 09/05/13 17:44, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > After sym linking I am still having no luck > > > > rsync: change_dir#4 > > "/home/aquj001/recievingDir.2013-09-05--23:40:58" failed: No such > > file or directory (2) rsync error: errors selecting input/output > > files, dirs (code 3) at main.c(877) [receiver=3.0.6] rsync: > > connection unexpectedly closed (9 bytes received so far) [sender] > > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at > > io.c(600) [sender=3.0.6] > > > > I am still getting these errors. > > > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Kevin Korb <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > > > First you rm the existing current link then you create a new one > > pointing at the backup you just made. > > > > It really is just a reference to use in the script to determine > > what the most recent backup is. The alternative would be to parse > > a directory listing to determine what the --link-dest parameter > > should be. > > > > > > - -- > ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ > Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 > Systems Administrator Internet: > FutureQuest, Inc. [email protected] (work) > Orlando, Florida [email protected] (personal) > Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ > PGP public key available on web site. > ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlIpAxMACgkQVKC1jlbQAQcewgCgulcebzhLNM2TYJtszIi/TOBn > p7oAn12QS1BmY2VTdl4qlKzttDDtXOgu > =sImI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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