Re: Thorough distributed backup/sync strategy

2008-11-02 Thread Henri S
LBackup probably will meet your needs. Also, Link-Backup may come close. Hope this helps. Disclaimer: I am a developer on the LBackup project. Matthew Monaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Does anyone have a good distributed backup strategy? I've been revising >mine for a y

Thorough distributed backup/sync strategy

2008-10-28 Thread Matthew Monaco
Does anyone have a good distributed backup strategy? I've been revising mine for a year or so now and always realize there's some hole or another in it. I get the feeling to do it exactly the way I want it needs to be complex, but I'm looking for something elegant. My data cons

RE: Strategy

2008-09-09 Thread Brad Farrell
Franck Y Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 5:37 PM To: rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: Strategy No one On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Franck Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I am building another backup server. I want to copy the data to be able to have a perfect copy o

Re: Strategy

2008-09-09 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 23:06 -0400, Franck Y wrote: > I am building another backup server. > I want to copy the data to be able to have a perfect copy on both > server. > > If i tar the folder (that i want to sync) on my current computer and i > move it to the new one and untar it. > When i will sy

Re: Strategy

2008-09-09 Thread Franck Y
No one On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Franck Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am building another backup server. > I want to copy the data to be able to have a perfect copy on both server. > > If i tar the folder (that i want to sync) on my current computer and i move > it to the

Strategy

2008-09-08 Thread Franck Y
Hello, I am building another backup server. I want to copy the data to be able to have a perfect copy on both server. If i tar the folder (that i want to sync) on my current computer and i move it to the new one and untar it. When i will sync it first, will he download again the data ? The amount

Re: --delete & --files-from can't be used as a purge list. Alternate strategy suggestions?

2005-01-14 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:02:39PM +, Simon wrote: > Looking around it would appear --delete works upon directory updates, > but there is nothing in the documentation that indicates that options > in the example above cannot be used in this way. I've updated the docs for the next release to ma

--delete & --files-from can't be used as a purge list. Alternate strategy suggestions?

2005-01-14 Thread Simon
Hi, N.B. rsync version 2.6.2 on Linux, no rsync server, using SSH THE PROBLEM rsync --delete --files-from= -e ssh -... : generates error: receiving file list ... link_stat " and does not have the desired effect of deleting the remote file EXAMPLE_FILE_NOT_ON_SECONDARY on the MASTER host. Loo