Re: Using rsync as an incremental backup

2011-06-23 Thread Scott Baker
On 06/23/2011 03:40 PM, Lancashire, Pete wrote: > pretty easy to put a wrapper around the script or add it .. If it were local that would be easy. This is remote (via SSH), so I'd have to login before I run rsync to verify that directory is that. I was hoping I could save that step since rsync is

Using rsync as an incremental backup

2011-06-23 Thread Scott Baker
I'm using rsync to do an incremental backup of my desktop here, to a remote server as follows: #/usr/bin/bash old=$(date -d 'now - 1 week' +%Y-%m-%d) new=$(date +%Y-%m-%d) rsync -avP --delete --link-dest=../$dir /home/bakers bak...@perturb.org:/home/bakers/backup/$new/ This is actually working