Re: rsync script for snapshot backups

2016-06-19 Thread Joe
Rely on the other answers here as to how to do it right. I just want to mention a few things in your script. yes | cp /volume1/rsync/Buero/timenow.txt /volume1/rsync/Buero/timeold.txt Yes is a program which puts out "Y" (or whatever you tell it to) forever - not what you want - and cp does

Re: rsync script for snapshot backups

2016-06-19 Thread Dennis Steinkamp
Am 19.06.2016 um 19:27 schrieb Simon Hobson: Dennis Steinkamp wrote: i tried to create a simple rsync script that should create daily backups from a ZFS storage and put them into a timestamp folder. After creating the initial full backup, the following backups

Re: rsync script for snapshot backups

2016-06-19 Thread Simon Hobson
Dennis Steinkamp wrote: > i tried to create a simple rsync script that should create daily backups from > a ZFS storage and put them into a timestamp folder. > After creating the initial full backup, the following backups should only > contain "new data" and the rest

rsync script for snapshot backups

2016-06-19 Thread Dennis Steinkamp
Hey guys, i tried to create a simple rsync script that should create daily backups from a ZFS storage and put them into a timestamp folder. After creating the initial full backup, the following backups should only contain "new data" and the rest will be referenced via hardlinks (-link-dest)

Any way to preserve file access times?

2016-06-19 Thread Albert Berger
Greetings! Though it's a bit strange for archiving/syncing program not to have an option of preserving file access times, but even the 'official' patch for enabing this option (the link to which is on the download page) doesn't work properly. I wonder is there a way to preserve the access times

Re: /root is wrongly copied during update

2016-06-19 Thread Albert Berger
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 06:02:32PM -0400, Kevin Korb wrote: > Any time you don't understand why rsync is copying something the first > step is to use --itemize-changes to find out what rsync thinks is > different about the file. > Thanks! That helped. Albert. > On 06/18/2016 07:22 AM, Albert