RE: Using rsync for incremental backups and the logfile dilemma

2001-02-15 Thread David Bolen
Paul Wouters [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: > Yes, imagine your nice logfiles being reduced to 0 bytes because > someone removed them on the server. My backups will vanish as soon > as rsynch is done (assuming --delete). I'm not using --delete on the > incremental, but want to use it on the week-old

Re: should rsync also be called ssync?

2001-02-15 Thread Michael James
>How does everybody (especially Martin and Tridge) feel about the idea of >rsync defaulting to "-e ssh" if it is invoked under the name ssync? Around >here everybody is being told they should stop using r* commands and start >using the s* equivalents so it seems a natural changeover. If there is

RE: Using rsync for incremental backups and the logfile dilemma

2001-02-15 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, David Bolen wrote: > Is there a reason that you can't just use a single backup location > based on a weekly cycle even if you're backing them up daily? (E.g., > rather than $DATE for the output directory on your daily runs, compute > a target directory based on week rather t

Re: should rsync also be called ssync?

2001-02-15 Thread Andrew Tridgell
I actually like the name rsync :) I'd be very happy with a configure option that sets the default remote shell, and I don't mind a argv[0] check that knows about the name ssync, but I'd prefer for the package to still be called "rsync" as I think the name is well enough known that a change at thi

RE: Using rsync for incremental backups and the logfile dilemma

2001-02-15 Thread David Bolen
Paul Wouters [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: > Now, I do realise this is still fairly efficient on our network, and > that's not my problem. My problem is more the diskspace all these > logfiles take up. Now I can't believe I'm the first one to have this > problem, and unless everyone else switched t

Re: should rsync also be called ssync?

2001-02-15 Thread Robert Scholten
Good idea - I'm in favour, although it'll take me a year or two to stop calling it rsync. On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Dave Dykstra wrote: > How does everybody (especially Martin and Tridge) feel about the idea of > rsync defaulting to "-e ssh" if it is invoked under the name ssync? Around > here every

Using rsync for incremental backups and the logfile dilemma

2001-02-15 Thread Paul Wouters
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/back

Re: Urgent : Information regarding the network traffic statistics

2001-02-15 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:46:51AM -0600, Denmark B. Weatherburn wrote: > I had asked this same question a few weeks ago, but I got no response. > I'm still interested in finding out though. > > Regards, > > Denmark W. > - Original Message - > From: Vikram Shrinivas Poojari > To:

should rsync also be called ssync?

2001-02-15 Thread Dave Dykstra
How does everybody (especially Martin and Tridge) feel about the idea of rsync defaulting to "-e ssh" if it is invoked under the name ssync? Around here everybody is being told they should stop using r* commands and start using the s* equivalents so it seems a natural changeover. If there is gen

Re: Urgent : Information regarding the network traffic statistics

2001-02-15 Thread Denmark B. Weatherburn
I had asked this same question a few weeks ago, but I got no response. I'm still interested in finding out though.   Regards,   Denmark W. - Original Message - From: Vikram Shrinivas Poojari To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

VMS

2001-02-15 Thread McKechnie, Grant (Contractor)
Good morning all,   Will RSYNC compile on VMS.  I have a requirement to synchronise data files between a Solaris node and a VMS node.   Any help appreciated.   Regards Grant Grant McKechnie UNIX Systems Consultant NextGen Unix TEAM (: +44 (0) 20 7264 2083 x6331 ): +44 (0) 7799 746 341