Hello list,
I thought all my rsync worries were over last time I posted here, but
unfortunately I was wrong. I am using cwrsync to backup a Windows XP
machine onto a Windows 2000 machine over our LAN. Relevant versions:
cwRsync 1.2.3, Rsync 2.6.2, cygwin1.dll 1.5.9-1, openssh 3.8.1p1-1
This wor
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:54:42PM -0600, Matthew Asplund wrote:
> Would it be possible to do an rsync which would leave the files in a
> compressed form when it was done?
The BackupPC software does this (and more) by using a custom perl app
that speaks the rsync protocol. There's a link on the "
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:39:47AM +0800, Mike Daws wrote:
> I have found that files which do not exist in DEST but do exist in DIR
> and SOURCE, are not created.
Correct -- that's the way --compare-dest works. Think of it as a sparse
backup function that only stores changed files. For an option
Yodel!
I'm trying to modify rsync so that it can read the source files from a tar
archive instead of a file system. I want to use this so I can fetch whole
filesystems from a fileserver with (i) a more efficient storage of the
filesystem images on the server and above all (ii) the process fet
