On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:00:49AM +0800, Hans E. Kristiansen wrote:
> I have a related question to this problem.
>
> We are doing backups from PC clients to a Linux server using rsync, and I
> would like change the full backup to incremental backups.
>
> However, the problem is that I may have used the wrong options
> , --destination-dir rather than -compare-dest option. However, can I still
> use --compare-dest with a remote directory, e.g. something like:
>
> rsync -ave ssh --compare-dest=backuphost:/home/user/backup/lastfullbackup \
> /cygdrive/c/My Documents/ \
> backuphost:/home/user/backup/$DATE
No, --compare-dest has to be local.
- Dave Dykstra
