rsync incremental backup

2009-02-23 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
Hi, Presently I have the latest full backup in a 'current' directory and 30 day incrementals in '-MM-DD' format directories. Without changing that directory structure I'd like the '-DD-MM' directories to contain the full system hardlinked (when applicable) to 'current'. What rsync

Re: rsync incremental backup

2009-02-23 Thread lewis butler
On 23-Feb-2009, at 01:27, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: Presently I have the latest full backup in a 'current' directory and 30 day incrementals in '-MM-DD' format directories. Without changing that directory structure I'd like the '-DD-MM' directories to contain the full system

rsync clear text while transfer status mail

2009-02-23 Thread David de Lama
Hi everybody! Since two months I tested a lot with rsync, and found out great things. But I still have a question, maybe two. 1. Was it possible in earlier rsync versions (below version 2.7 I thing, where the ssh option was not set as default) to read out the packets rsync sent? I mean could

CWRsync DeltaCopy

2009-02-23 Thread David de Lama
Hi everybody! I don't ask this question together with my previous ones, because it is a new theme. I also wanted to backup files from a Windows client to a Linux Server. For testing I transfered a 512MB file with a bandwidth of 10Mbyte/s. So when I run the rsync command from the Linux machine

Re: Renamed files and directories

2009-02-23 Thread David Howe
N.J. van der Horn (Nico) wrote: What is the current status of both rename-patches ? Are there alternative measures ? Frequently users reorganise directories and files. Recently a directory of 40GB was renamed... It took 3 weeks to re-copy all over an ADSL-link. I have followed the last

installing rsync-3-0-5 on a Mac

2009-02-23 Thread Kurt
Hi - is rsync --version reporting the wrong version number, or am I to stupid to properly install rsync-3-0-5 on a Mac? Here is what I did: download and extract rsync-3-0-5 (btw: why is there an extra patches folder?) in Terminal I ran: ./configure, make, sudo make install There was no

Re: installing rsync-3-0-5 on a Mac

2009-02-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 20:21 +0100, Kurt wrote: is rsync --version reporting the wrong version number, or am I to stupid to properly install rsync-3-0-5 on a Mac? Here is what I did: download and extract rsync-3-0-5 (btw: why is there an extra patches folder?) in Terminal I ran:

Slow network may be causing this?

2009-02-23 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello there, I'm transferring with rsnapshot in an SSH tunnel data from a remote Windows 2003 SBS Server to my Linux Server. While transferring a 3GB-File, I get: 2009/02/23 23:32:37 [3888] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092 bytes [sender]: Connection reset by peer (104) 2009/02/23

Time slot back schema

2009-02-23 Thread Daniel.Li
Hi List, Does Rsync support time slot back schema? E.G. (same local folder and remote destination) 1) first backup at 2008-12-24 2) second backup at 2009-02-12 But something bad happens to 2209-02-12, I need to restore files to first backup. Is there any way to do so? Any help is mostly