error - File or path name too long

Hi, rsync throws out the following error message. building file list ... readlink directioty_1/directioty_2/directioty_3/A_very_long_File_name_omitted_here: File or path name too long Could anybody please give me some clue how to resolve this ? Thanks bunch!

7 day incremental backup

I'm new using rsync, and I found the example for "7 day incremental backup". I got this working, but I've got 1 question:"Is there a way to rename the saved/backed up directory?"Like backup ~/junk but rename the backup directory to oldjunk.Thanks for you

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I want to use rsync as a backup utility on my backup hp9000 server while using unix 11.00 and 11.11. I wanted to know if before loading this software is there anything I need to load like a configure file. I also wanted to know if there are dependencies that need to be loaded before the

Re: 7 day incremental backup

On 2005-12-21 08:49:00 -0800, ed hayes wrote: I'm new using rsync, and I found the example for 7 day incremental backup. I got this working, but I've got 1 question: Don't know about that; use rsnapshot instead. Best Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de -- To

Very large memory block.

Using rsync-2.6.6, I'm getting: unable to alloc 417794083 bytes Under what circumstances would rsync allocate a block that large? Must it be able to allocate a block as large as the largest file or something? Is there a way to limit it? -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I