progress on screen with only stats in a log file

2010-03-27 Thread Andrei_r20
Hello ladies & gentlemen, Which combination of options/output redirection permits to display the progress (--progress) at the standard output and ONLY (no file listing) the stats (--stats) in a log file? If the stats are also displayed at the standard output, it's ok Thank you. ps: rsync 3.0.2

Re: rsync: stat "/path/to/dest/file" failed: No such file or directory (2)

2010-02-18 Thread Andrei_r20
Ok, I think I got my answer... The errors were due to the fact that i was doing a dry-run... So some hardlinks couldnt be recreated..because the file didnt exist on the target system or something like that... that's just my guess... Without the dry-run option, no errors were encountered So

Re: rsync: stat "/path/to/dest/file" failed: No such file or directory (2)

2010-02-18 Thread Andrei_r20
for backup: rsync -aH --stats --link-dest=/home/backup/lastbackup/folder1 /mnt/device/folder1 /home/backup/device/currentbackup for recovery rsync -aH --stats --delete /home/backup/device/currentbackup/folder1/ /mnt/device/folder1/ /mnt/device/folder1 is the nfs mountpoint backup creates folder1

Re: rsync: stat "/path/to/dest/file" failed: No such file or directory (2)

2010-02-18 Thread Andrei_r20
Here is the --stats output for both with and without --hard-links option: Without -H option (hard links treated as independent files): Number of files: 51531 Number of files transferred: 5884 Total file size: 5610758604 bytes Total transferred file size: 602614412 bytes Literal data: 0 bytes Mat

Re: rsync: stat "/path/to/dest/file" failed: No such file or directory (2)

2010-02-18 Thread Andrei_r20
okay, here is an update: I tried removing the -H option on the recovery part and I dont get the error anymore... so the files it was complaining about were all hard links... but I still don't get it. Am i recovering to the exact same image as when the backup was taken? For now, all my tries were

rsync: stat "/path/to/dest/file" failed: No such file or directory (2)

2010-02-18 Thread Andrei_r20
Well, the title says it all.. I tried to research on this subject, but didn't find anything conclusive to me. Can somebody explain that error? If the file on destination isnt there, why not just copy it from source, why an error? I did a backup with rsync -aH --linkdest="/path/to/linkdir" /path

Updating rsync version installed to new release

2010-02-05 Thread Andrei_r20
Hi, I have rsync 3.0.1 installed on Fedora 9 distribution. I want to update rsync to it's new release which is 3.0.7. I am not exactly sure how to proceed... I saw some source code tar files on rsync home page, but I am not too sure what to do with those. The Linux machine I mention has no inte

Re: rsync --link-dest, --delete and hard-link count

2010-02-05 Thread Andrei_r20
Sorry guys, I asnwered one of my questions, which i guess was stupid... Here is the updated post: Hello fellas, Firstly, I would like to apologize for the post being long, but I would appreciate if someone with a good knowledge of the subject gave his opinion. I am working on a backup solution

rsync --link-dest, --delete and hard-link count

2010-02-05 Thread Andrei_r20
Hello fellas, Firstly, I would like to apologize for the post being long, but I would appreciate if someone with a good knowledge of the subject gave his opinion. I am working on a backup solution for a series of old and very specialized host computers in aviation industry. I need to do monthly