better to exclude at daemon/server or client

2004-05-10 Thread Sean M. Kaiser
Quick question, Is there a difference if an --exclude-from (or just plain --exclude) is specified on the daemon or the client? I'm setting up daemons on each of my remote servers, and have a host with a RAID connected to it be the client to pull the data over the network. I'm wondering if there

Bad address error

2004-05-05 Thread Sean M. Kaiser
I'm getting a bad address error which is causing my rsync process to bomb out. I'm running RsyncX 2.1, in daemon mode on the source machine, with a script to pull the information to the backup server. Both servers are Xserves running OS X Server 10.2.8. Rsync target is on an Xserve RAID. The

Re: --backup requires remote connection?

2004-05-03 Thread Sean M. Kaiser
Wayne Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:19:35PM -0400, Sean M. Kaiser wrote: [skaiser-pbg4:~] localska% /usr/local/bin/rsync --delete --backup --backup-dir=/Users/localskaiser/archive -a /Users/localskaiser/source /Users/localskaiser/target This command works fine

--backup requires remote connection?

2004-04-30 Thread Sean M. Kaiser
Does the --backup, --backup-dir set require that either then source or target be a remote connection? Test folder hierarchy: /Users/localskaiser/source/myfile.txt /Users/localskaiser/source/a/b/c/newfile.txt /Users/localskaiser/target /Users/localskaiser/archive I can not get the following

rsync incremental backup probs

2004-02-24 Thread Sean M. Kaiser
I am having a problem with implementing a slight modification of the backup to a central backup server with 7 day incremental example from http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html. When rsync runs, I end up getting stat errors that the file doesn't exist in the backup-dir location. The backup server