Re: /home is symlinked to /usr/home - question about backups
Pat Maddox wrote: However if I run rsync -avz to back up my server, it creates something like this: /backup/march/19/home -> /usr/home So if I were to go to /backup/march/19 and rm -rf * wouldn't it go and delete everything in /usr/home? Should add: In you shell, alias rm to "rm -i" which will ask you about deleting anything and everything. For an rm -r, once you are *sure* that you are deleting the right thing, you can ^C, pull back your command line and edit it to say "/bin/rm ...". If you are sure you are deleting the right thing, and if you always edit the command line then you should never(*) delete something you didn't want to. (*) Of course, there will still be times when you are not paying enough attention and still manage to delete something you didn't intend to, but those times should be greatly reduced :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: /home is symlinked to /usr/home - question about backups
Pat Maddox wrote: I got a dedicated server a while ago, and it came with /home symlinked to /usr/home. I'm not entirely sure why, to tell you the truth, but it's never posed a problem. However if I run rsync -avz to back up my server, it creates something like this: /backup/march/19/home -> /usr/home So if I were to go to /backup/march/19 and rm -rf * wouldn't it go and delete everything in /usr/home? That's obviously not my intended result. I've read all the symlink options in man rsync but honestly am not sure what it is that I need to do. Ideally I'd like to have symlinks reference the relative file..so something like /backup/march/19/home -> /backup/march/19/usr/home That way I don't lose all my stuff if I remove the file from backup. Right now I'm just ignoring /home when I rsync, but it makes me kind of worried that if I ever backup without ignoring /home and then delete my backup I might lose my live data...I could really use some info. You could always make some dummy directories and symlinks and try it :-) But, no, it won't delete the real thing *unless you put a / on the end*. If you don't put the trailing slash then the symlink is deleted. If you put the trailing slash, then the symlink is dereferenced and the contents recursively deleted. If you did what you wanted with rsync, you wouldn't correctly recover symlinks. The rm man page says: The rm utility removes symbolic links, not the files referenced by the links. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
/home is symlinked to /usr/home - question about backups
I got a dedicated server a while ago, and it came with /home symlinked to /usr/home. I'm not entirely sure why, to tell you the truth, but it's never posed a problem. However if I run rsync -avz to back up my server, it creates something like this: /backup/march/19/home -> /usr/home So if I were to go to /backup/march/19 and rm -rf * wouldn't it go and delete everything in /usr/home? That's obviously not my intended result. I've read all the symlink options in man rsync but honestly am not sure what it is that I need to do. Ideally I'd like to have symlinks reference the relative file..so something like /backup/march/19/home -> /backup/march/19/usr/home That way I don't lose all my stuff if I remove the file from backup. Right now I'm just ignoring /home when I rsync, but it makes me kind of worried that if I ever backup without ignoring /home and then delete my backup I might lose my live data...I could really use some info. Pat ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
