Be aware that with any "live" backup solution your backup directory
may be corrupt in subtle ways. We've been running rsync for years now
to back up Windows files stored on our Samba server, and we often find
files on the backup destination that have the identical date and time
stamp as the sourc
: Dave Dykstra
To: John Madden
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: rsync as a backup solution
Rsync shouldn't exit completely in that situation, is that what you're
saying it did? I do expect that it would fail to copy files that
ar
Rsync shouldn't exit completely in that situation, is that what you're
saying it did? I do expect that it would fail to copy files that
are in the process of being modified as they're copied, but it should
continue on to the rest.
- Dave
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 10:22:12AM -0500, John Madden wro
I'd suggest you proceed with caution. I had implemented rsync as a backup
solution until I found out that it dies if you try to backup files that
get moved. (So if a user moves/deletes a file while your backup is
running, it'll fail.)
It is, however, great for static files.
> I would like to ge
Eric,
I'm going to use this opportunity to shamelessly plug my website:
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
By keeping multiple rotating backup "snapshots", you can protect yourself
should one or more of them get hosed, and you still won't need a huge
amount of extra storage.
