This following info is in the Rsync mail archives but I'll refresh it.
There is a free vss toolkit you can get from Microsoft which allows you to
create shadow drives of local Windows harddrives.
I've put together this collection and an example script on how to backup
say the entire C: drive or j
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4995
Summary: source_filter dest_filter patch fails in 2.6.9
Product: rsync
Version: 2.6.9
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4995
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The short answer is "It depends"
Egoitz Aurrekoetxea wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to determine if rsync is a sure method of backing
> up servers (Linux and Windows) whose files are constantly
> being accesed and are not able to be stoped they're services
> for backing up purposes... I wou
>could this copy correctly opened files?
it`s not a question if it`s open - it`s a question if you get a consistend copy.
with this, there is nothing which makes sure that the files doesn`t change
during transfer - so if it happens, on the target side you have a file
different from the source.
On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> At 18:01 25.09.2007 -0500, Robert wrote:
> >I'm trying to use rsync (version 2.6.9) to back up some files. However, a
> > few of them contain Hebrew characters. While I can back them up, the
> > filenames come through scrambled (I don't have
On 9/26/07, Richard Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I downloaded the source from the samba.org site. My current
> question/problem is that after I compiled and installed, it did not
> provide/create an rsyncd.conf file. Do I have to create one from
> scratch?
No, you can keep the one you were
Thanks a lot for all you're answers mate all of them very useful... IMHO rsync
will work quite nice with alomost all servers if you avoid backing up this way
databases (they're dump utilities should be used instead... And later rsync the
.sql files for example...). I think I'll set up all my ser
Hi rsync folks -
I've got an interesting scenario that I need help with.
I'd like to files and directories between a very large source and target
- about 350,000 files in the directory tree. When I run rsync between
the two to figure out the differences, it takes about an hour.
However, I do
