** Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-23 21:04]: > I'm hoping someone could help me with something I'm trying to achieve > with regards to backing up a friend's server to an external hard drive. > > Basically what he wants is to be able to run a nightly backup from his > server to a USB FAT32 formatted external hard drive. > > However, what he wants is only any files that have changed to be copied > over, and these files to be copied over into a new directory on the drive. > > I've been looking into rsync to do this. I've managed to do an initial > copy of his files from his server to the drive and then I've tried to > add some files to the server and then run rsync using the --backup-dir > switch which I've been pointing to the existing data on the USB drive. > > I can't seem to get it to copy only the differences though. > > I was wondering if anyone knew how to achieve this, or is it not > possible with a FAT32 formatted drive (which doesn't support hard links > as far as I know)? > > To be honest I think it would be much easier to just copy the full > directory every night. ** end quote [Rob Beard]
I thought that was exactly what rsync did, just copy the changed files. When I use it I get a report on the 'speedup' as a result of only copying the changed file once it has finished. This is from an rsync to upload web content to my web server over ssh using: rsync -av /path/to/local/dir remote.server.com:/path/to/remote/dir If it is for backup and you want to keep a record of changed files, i.e. keep copies of the files as they were before the change as a historical backup as well you may like to take a look at rdiff-backup: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 ====================================================================== Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
