At 10:27 02.06.2016, Fabian Cenedese wrote:
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>Hi
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>I'm trying to build a backup system based on rsync. It should
>work with different destinations (local, share, remote etc) that's
>why I'm looking for ways how every operation can be controlled
>from the client si
At 17:57 02.06.2016, Steven Levine wrote:
>>rsync -a --delete empty_local_folder remote_folder_to_delete
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>>to get rid of the contents. However the folder itself still remains. So
>>after a while I'd have a lot of empty folders.
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>This comes up on the list every now and then.
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>Here's a snip fr
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at 10:27 AM, Fabian Cenedese said:
Hi Fabian,
>rsync -a --delete empty_local_folder remote_folder_to_delete
>to get rid of the contents. However the folder itself still remains. So
>after a while I'd have a lot of empty folders.
At 13:22 02.06.2016, you wrote:
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>Fabian Cenedese wrote:
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>> This script is bash and also uses the "remote shell hacks" using SSH.
>> As I want to run it also from Windows I'm looking for a rsync solution.
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>Assuming you have control of the server, can you do a
Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> This script is bash and also uses the "remote shell hacks" using SSH.
> As I want to run it also from Windows I'm looking for a rsync solution.
Assuming you have control of the server, can you do a bit of semaphore ?
Eg, do your backup with rsync, then when it's complet
Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> Are there pure rsync ways to solve these two problems?
Short answer - no I don't think there is.
My feeling is that rsync (at least, rsync on it's own) isn't the right tool for
the job.
One think I would comment on though is that, IMO, making backup policies under
the
At 10:52 02.06.2016, Hans-Christian Jehg wrote:
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>Try having a look at this, for inspiration.
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>It does require the capability of hard-links on the remote end though... and
>it does not resolve your "delete target directory" either, but it might save
>you some f
Try having a look at this, for inspiration.
It does require the capability of hard-links on the remote end though...
and it does not resolve your "delete target directory" either, but it
might save you some fiddeling around :-)
https://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/rsync_time_machine.html
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