RE: (Not retransferring files deleted from destination)

2009-06-21 Thread Low, Alex
Hi Matt, Phew ! you were quick, and it's very much appreciated. Ok. We have three Solaris servers, and we have an Oracle database running on each of them, 1 Primary (prod) and 2 standbys (one 24 hours behind Prod & and the other 4 hours behind Production). The Arch logs are shipped from Prod

Re: (Not retransferring files deleted from destination)

2009-06-21 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 09:24 +0800, Low, Alex wrote: > We do have a situation now where we need rsync to transfer the files > once only from the source directory. Please let me briefly explain > > using a simple generic exmple: > > 1. At t0, we transfer f0 location A to location B > > 2. At t1,

rsync is fantastic except for one usual feature we want from it .. please help ?

2009-06-21 Thread Low, Alex
Hi, Rsync is a fantastic program, and it does everything we need in terms of file transfer and syncing source and destination file directories. We do have a situation now where we need rsync to transfer the files once only from the source directory. Please let me briefly explain using a s

Re: which server to make client and which the server for rsync.

2009-06-21 Thread Michael Chletsos
>> Are there design / performance considerations that influence which >> machine is made the server and which the client? My rsync processes typically are wrapped in a script that performs other tasks on the backup server, so I like to pull my data down to the backup server. Basically if you need

Rsync stops in the middle of a large transfer

2009-06-21 Thread Thomas T
Hello everyone. I am having trouble with rsync stopping in the middle of a transfer. Everything works fine for smaller batches of file, but when I try to rsync big groups, it just stops in the middle. I have been using rsync to copy my home directory to an SD card. I recently got a Drobo+Droboshar

Running filesystem backup?

2009-06-21 Thread RafaƂ Radecki
Hi all. I currently have a problem. I try to make a backup of a running / filesystem to a second disc. I've read tha some people use rsync for it. I mount the second harddisc at /mnt/hdb1 and issue a command: rsync -vaHx --progress --numeric-ids --delete \ --exclude-from=asylum_backup.excludes