pseudo incremental backup solution

2006-10-20 Thread Nico Schottelius
Hello dear list! Just wanted to tell you that there's a simple and somehow smart backup solution using rsync named ccollect [0]. It uses the hardlink feature of rsync to create fullbackups with only minor size differences (it uesd cp -al and pax before). I would be happy for any critic about

Re: track a stolen laptop via rsync

2006-10-20 Thread Stuart Halliday
My wife's Windows XP laptop was stolen a couple days ago. Every night the computer automatically preforms an rsync to a Debian Linux computer (the dumb-dumbs didn't steal that). My question: if the laptop successfully connects to the Linux box can you think of anyway I can use this fact

Re: pseudo incremental backup solution

2006-10-20 Thread Martin Schröder
2006/10/20, Nico Schottelius [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just wanted to tell you that there's a simple and somehow smart backup solution using rsync named ccollect [0]. And the difference to rsnapshot is? Best Martin -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync

Re: pseudo incremental backup solution

2006-10-20 Thread Nico Schottelius
[Sorry for breaking the thread, I did not found the Message-ID of Martin's mail on the web and he did not cc me.] 2006/10/20, Nico Schottelius nico-rsync at schottelius.org: Just wanted to tell you that there's a simple and somehow smart backup solution using rsync named ccollect [0].

Re: pseudo incremental backup solution

2006-10-20 Thread Martin Schröder
2006/10/20, Nico Schottelius [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The configuration parameters have to be TAB seperated (using standard whitespaces breaks). Cosmetics. :-) Rsnapshot does not support per source exclude lists (this is a real issue for bigger backup scenarios, as we use it here with 30

Re: pseudo incremental backup solution

2006-10-20 Thread Nico Schottelius
Martin Schröder [Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 01:21:02PM +0200]: 2006/10/20, Nico Schottelius [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The configuration parameters have to be TAB seperated (using standard whitespaces breaks). Cosmetics. :-) Well, it's a bit problematic if you've all your editors switched to replaced

skipping growing files?

2006-10-20 Thread John P. Speno
Is there a way to instruct rsync to ignore a file that is currently growing in size? For example, a file is currently being uploaded to the source machine while another client is using rsync to pull down files. Can rsync detect and skip said file instead of copying whatever is there

Rsync basic question

2006-10-20 Thread Michael Homscheidt
Hello, I'm new to rsync and have a basic question for rsync: I want to synchronize some data between two clients. Therefore I have configured a module on a server. For test purposes I'm trying to sent data to the module and get the data back to the same client. The problem is the

Re: Rsync basic question

2006-10-20 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 10/20/06, Michael Homscheidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - If I get the data back from the module the directory /Applications/ Scripts/Applications/Scripts is created. [...] (server to client) rsync --relative --recursive --archive -- compress --stats --perms --times $MODULE $DIRECTORY