Here is my entire rsync command for backing up from either of the work machines to the remote host:
rsync -r -b --backup-dir=backup --delete -z -i --progress sync/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:sync/
In particular I am passing rsync these two options:
-b --backup-dir=backup
This caused rsync to create, on the remote machine, a folder named backup inside the folder sync. I was a little worried about the backup folder being inside the sync folder. But indeed rsync seemed to copy into this backup folder any files from the remote end that got changed or deleted during a synchronisation. So far, as expected. Then (after successive synchronisations over time) rsync started creating backup folders insider the backup folder (recursively). It looked like on each synchronisation rsync moved the current remote backup folder to remote:sync/backup/backup (and did this recursively so that an existing /backup/backup folder becomes /backup/backup/backup/, and so on) and then it puts any new backup files into sync/backup/. Okaaay... so it's maintaining multiple backups, good, but I said to myself that I would have to go into the remote host every now and then and delete some of the older backups so I don't go over my quota. In further runs of rsync I noticed however that it was deleting things from the backup folders. It seems as if it's maintaining a set number of backups, three of four deep or something (I just checked and it goes five deep on my remote host right now, to backup/backup/backup/backup/backup/), and automatically deleting backups older than that. Am I right? Or have I done something wrong with my command?
Also I noticed that when I 'checked out' a copy of the remote folder onto a new machine and then used rsync to backup back to the remote host, it copied every single file. I think this may be because I should have 'checked out' the copy in the first place using rsync with the --times option? i.e. when rysnc'ing from a remote host to the local machine, you should pass -t so that the times are preserved in the new files on the local host? And that option should be used every time you rsync either to or from the remote host?
Finally when running backups from this new machine, rsync keeps feezing. At different points in the backup it just freezes for a long time and I eventually have to kill it. I have verbose output on but that shows nothing, the output just stops coming. It seems to be perfectly safe to kill rsync in mid-run and then re-run the command and hope it works. Is this safe?
Thanks
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