Re: are hardlinks supported when rsyncing over ssh?

2008-11-20 Thread Henri S
If you use FUSE then you can mount a virtual file sytem and then use hard links. The LBackup project has some pre and post scripts which deal with mounting and unmounting disk images via MacFUSE. Have a look at the following URL which has futher inforamtion regarding this setup : http://connect.ho

Re: Configuring Rsync to run without any user input or Cron job.

2008-11-20 Thread Henri S
I am unsure of your operating system requirments. However, Mac OS X 10.4 and later supports LaunchD and watch folders. This lets you run a script when items at a specific path change. A second hand machine which runs Mac OS X 10.4 should not set you back that much. -- Please use reply-all for mos

synchronization for many notebooks

2008-11-20 Thread Dan Letkeman
Hello, I'm wondering if Rsync could be used for the following? 500 Notebooks, all users have a local directory where they work on files, but they also use other workstations on the network and access there files from the server. So what I would like to do is have rsync running on the notebooks,

Re: rsync + cifs problem

2008-11-20 Thread Fabian Cenedese
At 11:31 20.11.2008 +0100, Christian Pinedo wrote: >I finally have installed cygwin in the windows 2003 machine with rsync, >ssh + cron in order to periodically launch the rsync bash script. I'm >launching the rsync script from the destination machine. This is a >vmware machine. > >rsync -aqzb --ba

Re: rsync + cifs problem

2008-11-20 Thread Christian Pinedo
I finally have installed cygwin in the windows 2003 machine with rsync, ssh + cron in order to periodically launch the rsync bash script. I'm launching the rsync script from the destination machine. This is a vmware machine. rsync -aqzb --backup-dir=../old_backups --ignore-errors --force --delete