Re: Recommended rsync tutorials?

2010-10-19 Thread Tom Buskey
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.netwrote: I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some 'backup'. I've read man rsync and a few 'tutorials'. It looks not too hard - this worries me. :) Anyone have a good/favorite tutorial on rsync that talks

Re: Recommended rsync tutorials?

2010-10-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.netwrote: I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some 'backup'. I've read man rsync and a few 'tutorials'. It looks not too hard - this worries me. :) Anyone have a

Re: Recommended rsync tutorials?

2010-10-19 Thread bruce . labitt
gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org wrote on 10/19/2010 10:17:56 AM: Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.netwrote: I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some 'backup'. I've read man rsync and a few

Re: Recommended rsync tutorials?

2010-10-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
bruce.lab...@autoliv.com writes: gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org wrote on 10/19/2010 10:17:56 AM: Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.netwrote: I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some

Re: Recommended rsync tutorials?

2010-10-19 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote:  I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some 'backup'.  I've read man rsync and a few 'tutorials'.  It looks not too hard - this worries me.  :) If you're performing backups with rsync, you may want to take

Re: Recommended rsync tutorials?

2010-10-19 Thread mark
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote:  I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some 'backup'.  I've read man rsync and a few 'tutorials'.  It looks not too hard - this worries me.  :) Anyone have a good/favorite tutorial on rsync that talks

Re: Recommended rsync tutorials?

2010-10-19 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 20:28, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote:  I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some 'backup'.  I've read man rsync and a few 'tutorials'.  It looks not too hard - this worries me.  :) Anyone have a good/favorite tutorial on rsync that talks

Re: Recommended rsync tutorials?

2010-10-19 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 05:24:26PM -0400, Roger H. Goun wrote: Don't forget to add --rsh=ssh or --rsh=ssh -l ssh-user to the rsync command line. ssh has been the default transport for rsync for 7 or 8 years now. -ben -- children are luxury goods. peter rogers

Recommended rsync tutorials?

2010-10-18 Thread Bruce Labitt
I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some 'backup'. I've read man rsync and a few 'tutorials'. It looks not too hard - this worries me. :) Anyone have a good/favorite tutorial on rsync that talks about how to do this over ssh and avoids common pitfalls? (like unmounted nfs...)

Re: Recommended rsync tutorials?

2010-10-18 Thread Dan Coutu
On 10/18/10 8:28 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some 'backup'. I've read man rsync and a few 'tutorials'. It looks not too hard - this worries me. :) Anyone have a good/favorite tutorial on rsync that talks about how to do this over ssh and avoids