RE: why not a gui for rsync

2007-10-01 Thread Suresh Govindachar
In response to > Stephen Zemlicka wrote: > >> RTM > > Where is the Manual -- that was the question I asked: > > | Where can one find an explanation of the format, content > | and interpretation of the outputs (a-e)? where (a-e) refer to: | So the question remains:

RE: why not a gui for rsync

2007-10-01 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Stephen Zemlicka wrote: > RTM Where is the Manual -- that was the question I asked: | Where can one find an explanation of the format, content | and interpretation of the outputs (a-e)? --Suresh -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/r

RE: why not a gui for rsync

2007-10-01 Thread Suresh Govindachar
> What exactly are you looking for in monitoring it? The -v > should give you a verbose output. If you want more details, I > think you can specify multiple -v to give you a more verbose > output. As my question indicates, I know the above. | So the question remains: In regard

RE: why not a gui for rsync

2007-10-01 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Regarding the recommendation: > Delta Copy: http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp > It has a gui already. No need to reinvent the wheel. I went over the FAQ and the documentation for Delta Copy. Delta Copy does not provide any means to continually monitor an on-going rs

Interpreting output from rsync

2007-09-30 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Hello, In regard to output, rsync has the following features: a) -v option with various levels of verbosity b) --stats c) --log-file=foo d) messages rsync prints to stdout e) messages rsync prints to stderr. Where can I find an explanation of the forma

RE: why not a gui for rsync

2007-09-30 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Daniel Platteau asked: > I'm using rsync and I'm very glad, but, in some case, i'm not so > happy. > > Some people are backing up the data with rsync but they have a > lot of files, more than 10 and 20 Gb of data. > > We are using batch files and the task schedulin

Verifying understanding of backup-dir vs compare-dest

2007-09-11 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Hello, Say one starts with creating an archive rsync work -> archive and periodically (below, i = 1 to N) does rsync --backup-dir=a_ work -> archive and rsync --compare-dest=archive work -> b_ Then suppose one wants to recover the work directory as it was a

Re: Batch mode scenario ("use case")

2007-09-11 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Matt wrote: >Suresh Govindachar wrote: > >> How about the following scheme? >> >> open /e/cmds/foo >> : >> >> >> discard lines till there is a match to some/path/projects/c_a >> >>

Re: Batch mode scenario ("use case")

2007-09-09 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Chris wrote: > Suresh wrote: >> >> Responding to the question of how to use the batch file >> /e/cmds/foo created via the command: >> >>> rsync -a --only-write-batch=/e/cmds/foo /c/home/wer/work/ /e/gold >> >> to selectively restore a subdirectory of work/ such as >> >> some/path/proj

Re: Batch mode scenario ("use case")

2007-09-09 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Responding to the question of how to use the batch file /e/cmds/foo created via the command: > rsync -a --only-write-batch=/e/cmds/foo /c/home/wer/work/ /e/gold to selectively restore a subdirectory of work/ such as some/path/projects/c_a into a new location such as

Batch mode scenario ("use case")

2007-09-09 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Hello, I came up with this scenario of the use of batch mode while thinking of back-up schemes to use for myself. However, it could be that the last step needed in this scenario is not supported by rsync! Here's the scenario: At one time, /c/home/wer/work and /e/gold had identical co