Re: what is the advantage of using rsync over sftp

2010-09-29 Thread Jorge Armando Medina
On 09/29/2010 05:06 AM, Ahmed Kamal wrote: >I understand you want to do all the same steps, just replace rsync > with scp ? Well the advantage, is that you will be doing the backups > regularly, and here rsync shines, because it will only send to the > remote end the files that have been change

Re: what is the advantage of using rsync over sftp

2010-09-29 Thread Tapas Mishra
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Ahmed Kamal wrote: >  I understand you want to do all the same steps, just replace rsync > with scp ? Well the advantage, is that you will be doing the backups > regularly, and here rsync shines, because it will only send to the > remote end the files that have bee

Re: dead letter recieved from cron

2010-09-29 Thread Tapas Mishra
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Ahmed Kamal wrote: >  These seem to be the "output" of a cron job. It seems like the server is > configured to auto-update itself. Any output cron generates gets sent by > email. dead.letter is when the mta (mail server) cannot deliver that email Yes it is configu

Re: what is the advantage of using rsync over sftp

2010-09-29 Thread Ahmed Kamal
I understand you want to do all the same steps, just replace rsync with scp ? Well the advantage, is that you will be doing the backups regularly, and here rsync shines, because it will only send to the remote end the files that have been changed from the last backup! scp would just send ever

Re: dead letter recieved from cron

2010-09-29 Thread Ahmed Kamal
These seem to be the "output" of a cron job. It seems like the server is configured to auto-update itself. Any output cron generates gets sent by email. dead.letter is when the mta (mail server) cannot deliver that email On 09/29/2010 01:00 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote: > I was taking backup of my

dead letter recieved from cron

2010-09-29 Thread Tapas Mishra
I was taking backup of my server when I noticed a file named dead.letter what is that it is in root folder and its contents I have not created. Here are the contents To: root Subject: CRON-APT completed on server [/etc/cron-apt/config] CRON-APT RUN [/etc/cron-apt/config]: Thu Sep 23 04:00:01 IST

what is the advantage of using rsync over sftp

2010-09-29 Thread Tapas Mishra
What is the advantage of using rsync over scp or sftp? On same list I have put up a problem of taking backup of an LVM. Which I mentioned here http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?26,135008,135251#msg-135251 I used rsync but I am not clear with what is the advantage of doing all this hard work. What I s