Re: Rysnc Schedule

2007-07-19 Thread sparty2809
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Re: Rysnc Schedule

2007-07-19 Thread Rick Romero
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Re: Rysnc Schedule

2007-07-19 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 7/19/07, Rick Romero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/bin/find /var/backup/* -mtime +30 -exec rm -rf {} \; Anything older than 30 days gets deleted from /var/backup/ That's no good: it deletes individual files that happen to be older than 30 days from even yesterday's backup. This is better:

Re: Rysnc Schedule

2007-07-19 Thread Rick Romero
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 09:30 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: On 7/19/07, Rick Romero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/bin/find /var/backup/* -mtime +30 -exec rm -rf {} \; Anything older than 30 days gets deleted from /var/backup/ That's no good: it deletes individual files that happen to be

Re: Rysnc Schedule

2007-07-19 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 7/19/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never used it before. Does it have a gui? No. You edit the configuration file /etc/rsnapshot.conf and then run rsnapshot from the command line with the name of the backup interval, like rsnapshot daily. Please don't be put off by having to edit a

Re: Rysnc Schedule

2007-07-19 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 7/19/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know how to use the command prompt, was just curious if it had a gui. OK. Please don't take any offense at my offering a little extra support in case you were a user who needed it. So this can backup for 30 days and once 30 days comes up, it will

Re: Rysnc Schedule

2007-07-19 Thread sparty2809
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Re: Rysnc Schedule

2007-07-19 Thread Rick Romero
for the past 10 weeks. Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart- questions.html -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Rysnc-Schedule- tf4104577.html#a11699492 Sent from

Rysnc Schedule

2007-07-18 Thread sparty2809
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Re: Rysnc Schedule

2007-07-18 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 7/18/07, sparty2809 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want to do is use rsync to back up a folder to an external drive. I would like to keep 30 days worth. For example: I have backups of June 1 - June 30. Once July 1 comes along, I want to keep June 2 - July 1 and delete June 1, and so forth.

Re: Rysnc Schedule

2007-07-18 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, sparty2809 wrote: What I want to do is use rsync to back up a folder to an external drive. I would like to keep 30 days worth. For example: I have backups of June 1 - June 30. Once July 1 comes along, I want to keep June 2 - July 1 and delete June 1, and so forth.

Re: Rysnc Schedule

2007-07-18 Thread sparty2809
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Re: Rysnc Schedule

2007-07-18 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, sparty2809 wrote: I understand how to do the rsync part, but how would I delete the files? In linux, you delete files with the rm command... In windows you'd probably want to use deltree... Or, you could get really fancy and use directed charges of thermite, although that

Re: Rysnc Schedule

2007-07-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 7/18/2007, Chuck Wolber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In linux, you delete files with the rm command... OT follow-up... Is there an alternate way to remove an entire directory *without* traversing the directory itself? -- Best regards, Charles -- To unsubscribe or change options:

Re: Rysnc Schedule

2007-07-18 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 7/18/07, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an alternate way to remove an entire directory *without* traversing the directory itself? No filesystem that I know of provides one, although it would be great to be able to issue a single unlink or rmdir call and have the filesystem