Re: rsync --delete problem

2006-06-01 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 09:31:49AM -0500, Smemoe, Richard L. wrote: > When I added the -delete option, my backup started taking about two > days to finish. You'd be better off using --del (--delete-during) than --delete, as it doesn't require a separate scan through the destination hierarchy. Al

Re: Incremental backups

2006-06-01 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 01:43:01PM +0200, Esteban Dugueperoux wrote: > As I want back up on DAT tapes I would like to have a full backup and > after some incremental backup with differences (modified or added files) > from latest backup (full or incremental backup) and not backup of olds > modif

rsync --delete problem

2006-06-01 Thread Smemoe, Richard L.
Hello,   I need to create a local backup every night of a filesystem that has about 3.5 million files.  I’ve been using rsync and everything has been fine until I started to use the –delete option to delete files on the backup that don’t exist in the production data.  When I added the –de

Incremental backups

2006-06-01 Thread Esteban Dugueperoux
Hi, I want define a incremental backup policy with Rsync. But Rsync can only back up olds releases of modified files. As I want back up on DAT tapes I would like to have a full backup and after some incremental backup with differences (modified or added files) from latest backup (full or incre