We are having problems with the --force --delete options not removing some
files/directories on the backup server. The options seem to work fine until
a snapshot of the files/directories are taken. We have a backup script that
runs daily on each server and the backups are made to a remote machine
I would like to get some opinions on a backup method using rsync. I already
have a script written to mirror the data over to a backup script from a cron
that is run every night. I've also been tempted to use the "--delete"
option to keep everything up to date on the backup server. However, this
> The key growth factor for the file construction is going to be
> per-file information that's about 56 bytes (last I looked) per file.
> However, the kicker is that the file storage block gets resized
> exponentially as you have more files. So for 385,000 files it'll
> actually be a 512,000 file
I recently installed rsync 2.5.5 on both my rsync server and client being
used. I installed the latest version because I was having problems with
rsync stalling with version 2.4.6 (I read that 2.5.5 was supposed to clear
this up or at least give more appropriate errors). I am still having
proble
