On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:06:48PM -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote:
While we're on the topic: I was dismayed to discover a while ago that
rsync doesn't allow different kinds of basis dirs in the same command
(e.g., --compare-dest=foo --link-dest=bar).
I'm trying to imagine how that would be useful
On 2/16/07, Wayne Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to imagine how that would be useful because one of the things
that the options do is to control how the destination hierarchy is
populated, and there's only one destination hierarchy. About the only
useful combination I can come up
On 1/30/07, Wayne Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're right. That means that the multi-option version of compare-dest
is not working as it should. I need to change the code so that rsync
creates a new version anytime the most recent version of the file
differs from the sender's version
On Mon 29 Jan 2007, Matt McCutchen wrote:
On 1/29/07, Wayne Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you
want to store the new, changed files, use one or more --compare-dest
options (one pointing at an old full backup, and an extra option for any
intervening incrementals).
This approach won't
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:56:16PM -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote:
This approach won't work because rsync will skip a file if it is in
the same state now as in any of the backups, not just the most recent
one. Thus, if I change a file and change it back, the fact that I
changed it back would not
I current do some rsync backups with a command like so every day
rsync -az -e ssh --stats --delete --exclude stuff / [EMAIL
PROTECTED]:/home/user/
What I want to do is have some incremental backups in there in
subdirectories. So, for example, something like this on the remote
server
On Mon 29 Jan 2007, Blake Carver wrote:
I current do some rsync backups with a command like so every day
rsync -az -e ssh --stats --delete --exclude stuff /
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/
What I want to do is have some incremental backups in there in
subdirectories. So, for example,
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:34:39AM -0500, Blake Carver wrote:
I thought the --backup --backup-dir Switches were used to store just
the files that had changed in seperate directories, am I wrong on
that?
It stores the old files that are being updated or deleted, moving (or
copying) them before
