Helmut,
I suggest you check out rdiff-backup, written by Ben Escoto for that exact purpose: http://www.stanford.edu/~bescoto/rdiff-backup/ -- Alberto In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, > I am thinking about a non-standard usage of rsync (at least not > mentioned in the man file) > > I want to synchronized my collegues home directories(trees) each night > AND store rsync's internal updating commands (reversed) to be able > to restore the state of a directory the day before. > This would require > - saving the internal updating commands in a separate directory > - reversing these commands if not stored in reverse > - an option to rsync to apply these commands to a given > directory. > > Is this already possible? > > Is it probably difficult to patch rsync to do so? > > If yes, can the backup option be told to record new/deleted > files as well. In that case my aims can be achieved at (much) > higher disk space. > > Thanks for any hints, > > Helmut Jarausch > > Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik > Institute of Technology, RWTH Aachen > D 52056 Aachen, Germany > **************************************************************************** Alberto Accomazzi mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] NASA Astrophysics Data System http://adsabs.harvard.edu Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics http://cfawww.harvard.edu 60 Garden Street, MS 83, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA ****************************************************************************
