Re: Question about in-place option.

2011-06-23 Thread Mickaël CANÉVET
Hi, Thank you very much, it's working with --inplace --no-whole-file. Now snapshots of a 15GB database backup only takes a few kilobytes a day instead of 15GB. Mickaël On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 18:02 +0100, jer...@jeremysanders.net wrote: Mickaël CANÉVET wrote: I was wondering if there is a

Using rsync as an incremental backup

2011-06-23 Thread Scott Baker
I'm using rsync to do an incremental backup of my desktop here, to a remote server as follows: #/usr/bin/bash old=$(date -d 'now - 1 week' +%Y-%m-%d) new=$(date +%Y-%m-%d) rsync -avP --delete --link-dest=../$dir /home/bakers bak...@perturb.org:/home/bakers/backup/$new/ This is actually working

Re: Using rsync as an incremental backup

2011-06-23 Thread Scott Baker
On 06/23/2011 03:40 PM, Lancashire, Pete wrote: pretty easy to put a wrapper around the script or add it .. If it were local that would be easy. This is remote (via SSH), so I'd have to login before I run rsync to verify that directory is that. I was hoping I could save that step since rsync is