rsync questions

2009-03-26 Thread gahn
Hi all: I got basic rsync working (not server mode). Basically it went to another server via ssh, backed up subdireactories and stored on the local server. But I am trying to use the feature of exclude and could not get it working rigjt. I am trying to back up /export/home/* (all of users) on

Re: rsync questions

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 26 Mar 2009, gahn wrote: I am trying to back up /export/home/* (all of users) on another machine but exclude a certain types of files. here is one of my tested exclude files: /home/unwanted_dir this one works. rsync successfully backed up other directories except the

Re: rsync questions

2009-03-26 Thread Harry Mangalam
You use '--exclude-from=/the/exclude/file' and that file should look like he extract below The following backs up all the users in my /home with the exceptions listed in it. The ones that have 'hjm' reference my home dir. the ones that have other users (hm/*) will completely skip those dirs.

Re: rsync questions

2009-03-26 Thread gahn
Thanks! --- On Thu, 3/26/09, Harry Mangalam harry.manga...@uci.edu wrote: From: Harry Mangalam harry.manga...@uci.edu Subject: Re: rsync questions To: rsync@lists.samba.org Cc: ipfr...@yahoo.com Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 1:05 PM You use '--exclude-from=/the/exclude/file

Re: Two rsync questions

2006-11-29 Thread Eric Zhang
Hi, Matt: Thank you very much. Your suggestions help me a great deal. About the first question, I have tested again and found that rsync works very well. Last time I thought rsync cannot deal with the chinese files because I use another encoding method to list these files so that every

rsync questions

2001-06-05 Thread Gonçalo Gomes
Dear rsync users, i'd like to ask some questions about rsync, 1) i'm going to use rsync to upload backups to backup machine, that machine will hold only backups. - does it keeps the ownership of the files if the users/groups, they don't exist in the remote machine (backup machines) or it

Re: rsync questions

2001-06-05 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:25:12AM +0100, Gonçalo Gomes wrote: Dear rsync users, i'd like to ask some questions about rsync, 1) i'm going to use rsync to upload backups to backup machine, that machine will hold only backups. - does it keeps the ownership of the files if the

Rsync Questions

2001-03-28 Thread Vogel, Charles H
I tried sending this question via Netscape but received some errors. So I am trying via MS Exchange. If this gets to you twice I am sorry. I am trying to get rsync to keep two directory tree's in sync and I can't seem to get rsync to follow the symbolic links to include the files in the