RE: Want my RSYNC documentation link to be added to your resources list.

2005-10-18 Thread tony
"So you can do anything, any sort of synchronization between these two directories." That statement cannot be logically accurate, however rsync does come astoundingly close. That does explain WHY many of the options. Further, options are required to determine what happens with incomplete or int

Want my RSYNC documentation link to be added to your resources list.

2005-10-18 Thread Amit Sharma
Dear RSYNC guys, As initially i found it really confusing setting up RSYNC done, but as i got it through, I was really fascinated with it. So i decided to create a new tutorial on my own regarding " UNDERSTAND RSYNC SERVERS & THEIR IMPLEMENATIONS". Direct link : http://www.amitsharma.linuxwo

Re: Help needed with filtering rules - how to copy named directories only

2005-10-18 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 01:03:17PM +0100, CARTER-HITCHIN, David, FM wrote: > The only way I can think around this is to run on the source server > "find /apps/IRDtools/pkgs -name lib -type d" and pipe the output of > that into an rsync "--files-from=-". Yes, that's the only solution that avoids cr

Re: rsync --compare-dest creates all dirs and symlinks

2005-10-18 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 08:07:56PM +0200, Dirk Schenkewitz wrote: > What happens is that rsync creates the whole tree of directories below > /data/A/gany.1/lib and also created all symlinks within that tree. Yes, that's the way rsync currently works. I'm considering making --compare-dest and --li

RE: How to prevent data corruption.

2005-10-18 Thread C. P.
Andrea: im not a backup expert, but i think that incremental backup may help you: http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html or try google "rsync incremental backup" carlos Hi all, I'm setting a script to backup my system using rsync. After reading the manual and googling the web a lot I'm won

How to prevent data corruption.

2005-10-18 Thread Andrea Riciputi
Hi all, I'm setting a script to backup my system using rsync. After reading the manual and googling the web a lot I'm wondering how rsync can protect my data from any potential corruption of the source HD. Suppose that a file on the source HD has been corrupted (because of a device failure

rsync --compare-dest creates all dirs and symlinks

2005-10-18 Thread Dirk Schenkewitz
Hi all, Being a rsync newbie, I wanted to use rsync for frequent backups that should only contain the changes. First I made copy of the important partition of the remote PC ("gany") using dd and mounted the resulting local file using a loop device under /mnt/gany. Then I tried: rsync -Haziv --

**MY** wildcard in recursive rsync

2005-10-18 Thread stoil valchkov
Hi, I have situation like this: /folder1/folder2/folderMYfolder/ /folder1/folder1MYfolder10/ /folder1/folder2/folder3/folder1MYfolder10/ Obviously I would like to get all files & directories which has in path **MY** Is it possible? Currently I have a patch solution which contains /folder1/fold

Help needed with filtering rules - how to copy named directories only

2005-10-18 Thread CARTER-HITCHIN, David, FM
Hi, I'm sure what I'm trying to achieve is remarkably easy, but I just can't figure it out. What I want to do is to copy all directories named lib (and their contents) over to a local drive. It's currently a pull operation, but I could set it up as a push. I've read the man page twice, looked a