Hello, I've been testing out using rsync for nightly incremental backups through the '--backup' & '--backup-dir' options. So far, I've noticed two issues.
1) First, if an empty directory is removed from the source, rsync will remove it from the destination but not create the directory in the backup-dir location. $ mkdir -p /tmp/src/foo $ rsync -a /tmp/src/ /tmp/dest/ $ rmdir /tmp/src/foo $ rsync -a --delete -P -b --backup-dir=/tmp/desti/ /tmp/src/ /tmp/dest/ 2) Second, when the contents of a non-empty directory is modified, the original timestamp is not preserved in the backup-dir location. $ mkdir -p /tmp/src/foo $ touch -t 200904011200 /tmp/src/foo/bar /tmp/src/foo /tmp/src $ rsync -a /tmp/src/ /tmp/dest/ $ rm -rf /tmp/src/foo/bar $ rsync -a --delete -P -b --backup-dir=/tmp/desti/ /tmp/src/ /tmp/dest/ $ ls -ald /tmp/desti/foo /tmp/desti/foo/bar I'm using version 3.0.6. I've played around with various options but did not find a combination where this worked. I scanned through the source, and it appears as though rsync only creates directories as required by files when they are moved over and doesn't update the timestamps after the directory's contents are processed. Is this accurate or is there some combination which will allow this to work? -Rob -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
