using rsync for incremental raw disk backup?

2012-01-01 Thread Daniel Pocock
I use off-site replication (rsync), but having backups on tape is also important The tape backup software offers a very thorough incremental and differential backup solution for UNIX filesystems, but for Windows filesystems that must be recoverable to a bootable state, I feel that only raw file

Re: rsync for incremental

2008-05-31 Thread Lasse Kliemann
* Message by -Lasse Kliemann- from Sat 2008-05-31: > * Message by -Madan Kumar- from Sat 2008-05-31: > > > Is there any command by which I can get only the updation of file ie only > > the incremental?. > > Suppose I have a text file say ss.txt of 3KB in size and I have taken the > > backup of t

Re: rsync for incremental

2008-05-31 Thread Lasse Kliemann
* Message by -Madan Kumar- from Sat 2008-05-31: > Is there any command by which I can get only the updation of file ie only the > incremental?. > Suppose I have a text file say ss.txt of 3KB in size and I have taken the > backup of this file. Now I am making the changes in to this file(ss.txt) b

rsync for incremental

2008-05-30 Thread Madan Kumar
Hi all, I am able to copy the dir from one drive to another drive on local machine using windowsXP. Is there any command by which I can get only the updation of file ie only the incremental?. Suppose I have a text file say ss.txt of 3KB in size and I have taken the backup of this file. Now I am

RE: Using rsync for incremental backups and the logfile dilemma

2001-02-21 Thread Yazz D. Atlas
Just saw this thread in the list and thought I'd point out a little bash script I wrote for laptop users that want to do backups in the office or on the road using rsync and ssh. Using the latest version of rsync. http://support.osdn.com/yazz/guppy-01-beta/INSTALL http://support.osdn.com/yazz/gup

Re: Using rsync for incremental backups and the logfile dilemma

2001-02-21 Thread Hans E. Kristiansen
day, February 16, 2001 03:35 Subject: Using rsync for incremental backups and the logfile dilemma > Hi, > > We're doing offsite backups using rsync, more or less the cookbook example > using: > > rsync --numeric-ids --compress --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --recursive --archive \

Re: Using rsync for incremental backups and the logfile dilemma

2001-02-21 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:00:49AM +0800, Hans E. Kristiansen wrote: > I have a related question to this problem. > > We are doing backups from PC clients to a Linux server using rsync, and I > would like change the full backup to incremental backups. > > However, the problem is that I may have

RE: Using rsync for incremental backups and the logfile dilemma

2001-02-15 Thread David Bolen
Paul Wouters [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: > Yes, imagine your nice logfiles being reduced to 0 bytes because > someone removed them on the server. My backups will vanish as soon > as rsynch is done (assuming --delete). I'm not using --delete on the > incremental, but want to use it on the week-old

RE: Using rsync for incremental backups and the logfile dilemma

2001-02-15 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, David Bolen wrote: > Is there a reason that you can't just use a single backup location > based on a weekly cycle even if you're backing them up daily? (E.g., > rather than $DATE for the output directory on your daily runs, compute > a target directory based on week rather t

RE: Using rsync for incremental backups and the logfile dilemma

2001-02-15 Thread David Bolen
Paul Wouters [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: > Now, I do realise this is still fairly efficient on our network, and > that's not my problem. My problem is more the diskspace all these > logfiles take up. Now I can't believe I'm the first one to have this > problem, and unless everyone else switched t

Using rsync for incremental backups and the logfile dilemma

2001-02-15 Thread Paul Wouters
Hi, We're doing offsite backups using rsync, more or less the cookbook example using: rsync --numeric-ids --compress --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --recursive --archive \ --relative --sparse --one-file-system \ --compare-dest=/vol/backup/$HOSTNAME/current $HOSTNAME:$DIRECTORY \ /vol/back