Re: rsync mirror solution: how to prevent accidental mirror deletion

Hi Rahul, I have two suggestions: 1. Use --max-delete option to limit the amount of damage that can be done when this happens. 2. Add some redundancy to your backup by keeping multiple past backups and rotating between them. You can use --link-dest to allow sharing of unchanged files between back

source-filter_dest-filter patch and --no-whole-file

Hi, I am looking at using the source-filter_dest-filter patch with rsync 3.0.7. The patch sets the --whole-file option (i.e. disables the rsync algorithm) when either --source-filter or --dest-filter are given. I can't see any reason why these new features won't work with --no-whole-file. I tri

Re: Prepared meta directory for one to many sync

Hi Luke, 2009/5/6 Lukas Macura : > I know our scenario is similar to some rsync download mirror and maybe > it is solved somewhere. But I did not find any solution yet. > > Maybe it would be great if rsync have some "meta" directory, where it > would prepare all infos about stored files. Like hash

Re: Disaster recovery option for file server

Hi Jeff, 2009/4/18 Jeff Boyce : > Would I have to run cygwin on the Vista box?  I would prefer not to if > possible.  Can anyone give me some basic guidance on how I might do > this?  All the discussions I see about using rsync is either between > two Linux boxes, or from a Windows box using cygwi

Re: itemized option (-ii) with --log-file and --log-file format

Pipe the output through sed? 2009/4/6 Jignesh Shah : > Thanks Wayne for reply. I want to use log-file support only so that i need > not to read stdout and put output into the file. I have to use -ii so that > it print all the statistic info about what files/dirs synched and what are > not. Please

Re: Rsync Over SSH (Windows XP)

Hi Henri, 2009/3/14 henri : > In essence I would like to determine if rsync a good choice when it comes to > the backup of files on a Windows XP machine? > > Suggestions such as the following will all be warmly welcomed : > > (1) Do not run rsync over ssh, keep it simple. > (2) Do not use rsync on

Re: rsync --link-dest option with the destination directory containing old files.

2008/12/23 Robert Bell : > It seems to us that there is a good case for the enhanced functionality. > > "When a file is found in the destination which should be replaced by one > in the source, look in the --link-dest directory first for a candidate, > and hard-link that in preference to doing a co

Re: Feature I'd love to see: --move-dest

Hi, I'm curious as to why you need a new option rather than just using --link-dest. Both --link-dest and --copy-dest already allow the "two very common restor scenarios" that you mention and --link-dest uses hardly any extra disk space than your --move-dest suggestion. You also get the added adv

Re: Looking for a Comprehensive list of error codes

Hi, You could look at the EXIT CODES section of the rsync(1) man page, e.g. at http://www.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html. However, this only details exit codes from rsync itself, it doesn't mention exit code 255 which I think is actually coming from ssh. The ssh(1) man page says that ssh will re

Re: link-dest storage saving on backup server not on usb hard drive

Hi, On 26/06/2008, fglos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have setup rsync to backup another linux computer with the link-dest option > and realized storage savings. 1st backup is 31gb, daily backups only take > approx 4gb. But when I rsync with link-dest to usb external drive all > backups t