Re: (Not retransferring files deleted from destination)

2009-06-26 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 16:21 +0100, Ed W wrote: > I love rsync, but I recently discovered unison and for some tasks it > works better. In particular it is designed to track changes on both > sides and can spot the difference between something deleted and not > yet copied. Perhaps give it a whirl w

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

2009-06-26 Thread Ed W
Conway, Timothy wrote: That's not a usual feature. That's a very unusual feature, as it would never be included in a syncronization tool. Actually it's likely something which likely is popular in a sync tool, it's just that rsync is more like a mirror-ing tool than a full sync tool. I think

Re: (Not retransferring files deleted from destination)

2009-06-26 Thread Ed W
Low, Alex wrote: 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 ar

Re: how to keep user/group information when rsyncing to windows for restoring back to linux later?

2009-06-26 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 26 Jun 2009, Wei, Xiaohai wrote: > I want to backup the who linux system to a windows system. The backup will > not be used in windows and will only be used to restore to linux system > later. > > So I want to know is it possible to use rsync to keep the user/group and > other permission i