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/$DATE
Since we are talking PC clients, and that I would for security reasons use
would not use rsync as a daemon on the PC, how can I get this to work?
Otherwise, this is an excellent package which I use in other environments
very often.
Thx,
Hans E.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Wouters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 03:35
Subject: Using rsync for incremental backups and the logfile dilemma
> Hi,
>
> We're doing offsite backups using rsync, more or less the cookbook example
> using:
>
> rsync --numeric-ids --compress --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --recursive --archive \
> --relative --sparse --one-file-system \
> --compare-dest=/vol/backup/$HOSTNAME/current $HOSTNAME:$DIRECTORY \
> /vol/backup/$HOSTNAME/$DATE
>
