Re: How to specify --link-dest on server (rsyncd.conf)?

2008-04-29 Thread Carl E. Thompson
Hmm... I didn't get any response to my post... did I send my question to the wrong list? Is there a more appropriate way to contact the rsync developers? Did I miss some feature in the documentation that does this? Are the developers simply too busy / not interested in responding to this issue?

Re: How to specify --link-dest on server (rsyncd.conf)?

2008-04-29 Thread hh . eu
I didn't read all of your post, to be honest, so forgive me if this does not help, but are you aware of rsnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ ? It is very nice for snapshots and uses rsync 'behind the scenes'. Search the list archives for info on this. In particular, this post

Re: How to specify --link-dest on server (rsyncd.conf)?

2008-04-29 Thread Carl E. Thompson
Thank you for your response. Currently backups are implemented via rsync and I don't want to add rsnapshot to the mix and have to reconfigure everything on the clients and server. Moreover from what I've read rsnapshot seems very similar from what I've already implemented and I believe suffers

How to specify --link-dest on server (rsyncd.conf)?

2008-04-20 Thread Carl E. Thompson
Hello, This is my first post to the list. Is it possible to specify the --link-dest option server-side in the rsyncd.conf file? What I'd like to do is implement incremental snapshot backups without having to change the clients which all just do regular dumps to the rsync server. I'd