Rsync backup script with snapshot

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Ferrara
Hi guys, Many thanks with your help on getting my backup script working with relative paths and LVM snapshots. I have it working pretty well now, and I thought I would let everyone see the finished product. I have published it on my wiki at http://wiki.receptiveit.com.au/mediawiki/index.php

Re: Backup script

2004-07-08 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, spivkid wrote: > I guess I need a full copy of the data that is need to be backup from > the remote box on my local box so rsync can compare the file different > each date? Not really. Having no data on the remote box means that there's more to transfer across from the sour

Backup script

2004-07-08 Thread spivkid
*The goal is to backup an remote incremental each day.* I trying to figure a way to run rsync via ssh from my local box to backup an remote box but only back incremental of changed data to a dir for that day. I guess I need a full copy of the data that is need to be backup from the remote box on

Re: strange rsync error message from our backup script

2004-06-16 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:54:34AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:00:56AM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > > make_bak_dir mkdir > > "/backup/naxos.premier-lnc.com/2004-06-09/home/ddegrolard/profile/Local > > Settings/Application Data" failed: File exists > > This

Re: strange rsync error message from our backup script

2004-06-15 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:00:56AM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > make_bak_dir mkdir > "/backup/naxos.premier-lnc.com/2004-06-09/home/ddegrolard/profile/Local > Settings/Application Data" failed: File exists This is a bug that is currently fixed in the CVS version. If you click on the "

strange rsync error message from our backup script

2004-06-15 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
Hello, I use rsync for incrmental backups in the following way: rsync \ $EXCLUDE \ -e ssh \ --archive \ --numeric-ids \ --compress \ --relative \ --one-file-system \

Offtopic: experimental perl backup script

2003-11-24 Thread Maarten Boot (CWEU-USERS/CWNL)
Hi, I am writing an experimental implementation in perl to do backup/replication. experimental implementation is availible at www.mboot.org/ftp/amrta its an experiment in its very early stages, currently running on W2K with activestate 5.8.0. I can do backups and restores at the moment. some d

can't delete older file/directory links on another localpartitionafter `snapshot' type backup script

2003-03-16 Thread Dalton Harvie
Well I think I've found out what the problem was here, but don't understand why. Something to do with include/exclude pattern though (surprise, surprise). As I see it Basically all these commands should (and tested, do) transfer the same files, only everything under /root/tmp/test plus the

can't delete older file/directory links on another local partitionafter `snapshot' type backup script

2003-03-11 Thread Dalton Harvie
Thanks for looking at this, and developing rsync. Really useful program that I rely on. Bit of a newbie but I couldn't find anything on this in these archives. Hopefully it's a really stupid question! I'm trying to backup using cp -al and then rsync -auR --delete backup idea basically as pe