Re: link-dest and batch-file

2018-06-28 Thread Larry Irwin (gmail) via rsync
of successful daily backups and 4 months of depth backups. -- Larry Irwin Email: lrir...@alum.wustl.edu On 06/26/2018 04:36 PM, Dan Stromberg via rsync wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Дугин Сергей via rsync mailto:rsync@lists.samba.org>> wrote: I am launching a

Re: rsync Digest, Vol 162, Issue 18

2016-06-23 Thread Larry Irwin (gmail)
of the process at sites with less than perfect internet service) -- Larry Irwin Email: lrir...@alum.wustl.edu On 06/22/2016 09:20 PM, Bell, Robert (CSIRO IM, Docklands) wrote: Folks, Am 20.06.2016 um 22:01 schrieb Larry Irwin (gmail): > The scripts I use analyze the rsync log af

Re: rsync script for snapshot backups

2016-06-20 Thread Larry Irwin (gmail)
years and, in my environment, the 10 copies take about 4 times the space of a single copy. (we do complete copies of linux servers - starting from /) If there's a good spot to post the scripts, I'd be glad to put them up. -- Larry Irwin Cell: 864-525-1322 Email: lrir...@alum.wustl.edu Skype

Re: clone a disk

2015-07-17 Thread Larry Irwin (gmail)
The device names might be different - the mount folder may be different - etc... But the idea works. - With a new, blank drive, you could recreate the partitions using fdisk, reverse the dd commands, boot and then work on getting the second partition back up and running. -- Larry Irwin On 07/17/2015

How to call rsync client so that is detects that server has gone away?

2011-07-12 Thread Larry Irwin
are still running... Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Larry Irwin -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart

Re: Using rsync as an incremental backup

2011-06-24 Thread Larry Irwin
We handle it via 2 scripts. One script (on the server side) does daily rotations mid-morning on successfully completed rsyncs from the night before. (i.e. removes daily.7, moves daily.6 to daily.7, etc... - if the rsync was successful) The client side always sends to daily.0 and uses the

Re: some files vanished before they could be transferred

2009-05-28 Thread Larry Irwin
I am using a configuration file on rsync client machines to list the files to exclude for that machine. When I get a log containing vanished files, I get on that machine, confirm they are temp files (like pirnt spool files, etc.), and add them to the exclude list: So, I have a file like

Re: is it possible to continue rsync after network interruption?

2009-03-31 Thread Larry Irwin
to generate the initial image of a client machine... Just keep running the rsync process over and over until the first image is completed. Then the process reduces to a minimal transfer/execution time from that point forward. Especially when using the --link-dest option... Hope that helps! Larry