On 3/3/08, Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you using the "--partial" option for rsync?
No, but I just read the man page on it. > Sticking with rsync for now... do you have any reasons other that > network timeouts to desire a different solution? No... if it would work, this would be the solution we're looking for. > The best approach I've seen using rsync for backups uses a wrapper to > setup a lock-file of sorts, > kicked off [repeatedly] by a cron job... the wrapper script will not > try to do 2 rsyncs at once, in short. Hmmm, with partial it seems I could set up an hourly cron job (or so) rather than a big nightly. If things are pulled down little by little, that might reduce the chance for a bad network disconnects. And if it did disconnect, it would just pick up where it left off last time. My other idea was to use tar and do a big monthly tar, then do nightly tars of the differences (archival tar?) and scp those down. I'm not sure which might be preferred. Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
