Hi, I'm a system manager using rsync 2.6.3 to run backups.
One of the main requirements is that the data is GPG encrypted before it is sent to the remote host (and stays encrypted there). As it is impossible to encrypt the entire system (which could be well over 10GB) I built a small script to determine which files were modified, unchanged and removed. It does this by generating an md5sum list of all files and comparing that to the one created on the previous backup. When I know what files changed and were new, I built a temprorary directory, build the directory structure there, encrypt the files and put them in this temprorary store. After that this is synced using rsync. I use the --backup option to keep a "current" and an incremental directory for each day of the week, so I can retrieve more than just the last backup. My problem is in processing deleted files. As the temprorary file store does not always contain all files (only the changed/new ones are placed in the store, to save disk space) rsync thinks that these files were deleted, and deletes them from the "current" tree on the remote host. They are ofcourse saved in the incremental directory after that, but the idea is that the current tree is always a correct copy of the current situation. I can ofcourse disable the deletion of files, but I do need to delete files that were actually deleted on the source host. In the manual I read that when using --delete-after rsync would not delete files in the excluded files list, even if they were not placed in the source directory anymore. For some reason this does not appear to work for me. The exclude file list has filenames that are relative to the source directory supplied to rsync, so that would be correct. The line I use to run rsync: /usr/bin/rsync --rsh=ssh -p -o --delete-after --recursive --links --times --compress --verbose --stats --backup --backup-dir=/home/erik/day-of-the-week --timeout=36000 --exclude-from=unchanged_files_list /home/erik/temprorary_encrypted_store [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/erik/current Does anyone know what may be wrong with that? Another solution for me may be to disable deletion at first and then run another rsync session where I tell rsync: delete these files (aka move them into the incremental directory for today). Ofcourse it would be possible to write such a script myself (not using rsync) but it would be much nicer if I could do it with rsync, which probably supports these features. Any suggestion on how to solve this is appreciated :-) greets, Erik Romijn -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
