Re: Help creating incremental backups using --backup-dir.

2009-04-09 Thread David Miller
d XFS, ext3 and ext4 with no luck. I even tried creating a sparse disk image and mounting that from a Samba share but it is too unreliable. If there is a connection loss while data is writing to the image it corrupts the image more often than not. David. On Apr 9, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Dav

Help creating incremental backups using --backup-dir.

2009-04-09 Thread David Miller
Normally I would use the --link-dest option to do this but I can't since I'm rsyncing from a Mac to a Samba share on a Linux box and hard links don't work. What I want to do is create a 10 day rotating incremental backup. I used the first script example on the rsync examples page as a templ

Re: Rsync to Mac

2008-05-28 Thread David Miller
It is the same on all *NIX platforms. Create an rsyncd.conf file in / etc and define the settings and modules you want. Here is an example. #rsyncd.conf= secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets read only = no list = yes uid = root gid = wheel timeout = 300 strict modes = false [backup1]

Re: Howto: Mac OS X to Windows VM

2008-04-11 Thread David Miller
On Apr 9, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Rama D. Chavali wrote: Hi, I have a mac pro and a windows Vm which I want to keep sync. I tired using other Sync programs but they do not seems to be working. I tend to leave applications running which create their own temp files in its own specific folder,

rsync3 universal binary for Mac OS X?

2008-03-06 Thread David Miller
Did anyone ever get rsync3 to compile as a universal binary and work correctly on both tiger and leopard on ppc and intel? David. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores

2008-01-18 Thread David Miller
the transfer via the SMB/... layer? Thanks a lot for a great program! -Moritz -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html David Miller. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.