Re: simple incremental backup woes. solutions?

2008-09-22 Thread The Peach
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:44:43 -0400 Matt wrote: > I hacked up a patch to do this for you with a --backup-whole-dirs > option; the patch is attached. sorry if I report in too late, but I finally got time to test the patch and - I never had a suspect about it - it works perfectly! thanks a lot aga

Re: simple incremental backup woes. solutions?

2008-09-05 Thread The Peach
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:44:43 -0400 Matt wrote: > Yes. I hacked up a patch to do this for you with a --backup-whole-dirs > option; the patch is attached. The patched version of rsync is also > available in branch hacks/backup-whole-dirs of my repository. > > Matt thank you a lot. I'm looking fo

Re: simple incremental backup woes. solutions?

2008-09-05 Thread The Peach
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:05:52 -0400 Matt wrote: > o you want it to > just add the suffix to deleted destination directories, or to both the > directories and the files inside, or what? Sorry for this misunderstanding. Right now: if the directory in the source is deleted, in the destination the f

Re: simple incremental backup woes. solutions?

2008-09-05 Thread The Peach
On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:48:28 + Matt wrote: > It's not clear to me what the problem is, since the "cannot delete a > non-empty dir" message is pretty harmless. Do you want the directories > to be renamed? If so, should the individual files inside be renamed > too? The situation with my rsy

simple incremental backup woes. solutions?

2008-09-03 Thread The Peach
Hi all, I've finally hit rsync limit. As someone already addressed the problem in this list the problem regards the impossibility for rsync to rename directories. The situation is as follow: every night I backup my samba dir with this command: rsync -ab --suffix=-`date +%F-%H%M` --filter="protec