On Wt Września 4 2007, 8:33 am, Lampa wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> I'm no Bill Shupp (joking, hehe) but here are my thoughts:
>
> yes, we know - different names :)
Hehe. It was also meant as a kind of "i'm no guru" where "Bill Shupp" ~
"Guru"
>> The same applies to a single file.
> there is problem that archive is not created eg is missing due this
> problem
Aah, maybe that is something possible to change with options.
>> On the other hand I am using rsync to backup in a script called nightly:
>>
>> # time rsync -avb --delete --delete-excluded /home/vpopmail/
>> /nas/vpopmail
>> 2>&1 | mail -s "DUMP VPOPMAIL" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> The command rsyncs my whole /home/vpopmail to mounted NAS on /nas;
>> It redirects output and sends an email to me when it's done.
>> It also deletes files in the destination that are not present in the
>> source.
>
> i'm little out of space (emails takes about 400G) and i must pack it
> and send over ssh to another host :(
Hm, I was doing backups on LAN. However, but you can use -z with rsync and
gzip it in flight and I think rsync is more reliable.
Maciej
