This is a cool idea. I'll give it a try and see if I can make it work for
me. One thing missing is the switches for "replace mode" you mentioned.
I'll comb through the manpage of course...
Thanks,
-Clint
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Greg Deback (rsync) <
greg.deb+rs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I
If you really want to have a destination tree that looks like :
current -> 2012-07-22
2012-07-22/
2012-07-21/
with the current symlink pointing to the latest backup, you can manage to
do it in two passes :
1. Create an empty directory '2012-07-22/' and the 'current' symlink
pointing to it (rela
Ok, that is helpful. As you can guess based on my question, it would be
nice if all the automation can be done on the client side rather than
having some specialized scripting on the receiving side to manage
directories and symlinks etc.
Thanks,
-Clint
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Greg Deba
Hi,
As for the destination directory and the backup directory (--backup-dir),
rsync will create the missing subdirectory (one level below the existing
dir only), so yes for //, no
for /// on january
1st... But if you want this dir to be a symlink, you can't.
Greg
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 7:16 PM,
I've been very interested in these discussions and uses of rsync as a
"clone" of Time Machine. A couple of things have been keeping me from a
fully automated solution. I'd like to eliminate the need for Samba/NFS
mounts of any kind, because they have proven to be unreliable for me and
under some op
