Hi All,
I am writing a backup program for my computer. brief outline is as follows.
Running ubuntu 10.04
2 main partitions, / and /home, both ext3. 1 external usb hdd, ext3,
mounted to /backups/main.
once every couple of days, rsync backs up, using following command,
everything worth backing up i
> Below is a link to a script (which currently only supporting Mac OS X) which
> will synchronize a sparse bundle image to a remote server.
Sorry I forgot the link in the previous email.
- http://www.lbackup.org/synchronizing_disk_images_between_machines
Finally, yes I would be very interes
Thanks for the reply,
I did think about remotely executing a mkdir before the backup, but one blocker
is that I will be using Thecus NAS boxes as some off-site locations and I don't
have shell access.
The local staging is a good idea. The servers all run Linux.
I will post back with my results
> I really want to put the logic in the script so it is easy to bring another
> backup location online easily.
If you have shell access to the destination system from your backup script then
one option may be to issue 'mkdir -p' via ssh.
> Creating the directories manually on the destination s
Hi,
rsyncd.conf allows you to forbid compression. I'd like a way
for it to require compression, either by forcing the option
on or forbidding transfers from clients that don't request
--compress
Is such a thing possible?
Regards,
David.
--
Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitti
Hi everyone,
I have been using rsync for years to perform off-site backups, and have
recently come up with a problem that is starting to hurt my head. I am at the
point where I am starting to think that there is a method to achieve my desired
outcome that I cannot see.
First, a bit of history.
