On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 18:12 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> if I have
>
> rsync -a --delete --backup --backup-dir=/some/backup/path
> /path/to/my/files/ another-machine::module/my/backup/
>
> where is /some/backup/path rooted? if is was instead some/backup/parth
> (without the leading slash) wher
> [What I am trying to achieve is to backup (part of) my home directory to a
> backup server such that
>
> a) I have a reasonably up to date (within a day if I do it overnight) of my
> current state
> b) If I have deleted or updated a file the old version of it gets placed into
> a special "sn
The current man text for rsync is rather sparse in what it tells you
about backup-dir
This is from my debian installation - which appears to have come from
the source here
--backup-dir=DIR
In combination with the --backup option, this tells rsync to
store all backups in the specified direct
