Yes, if you remove the --delete parameter to the rsync call, then it will not delete files that no longer exist in the source file system. At RTI I don't use --delete when backing up certain project shares, to protect against users' "accidental" file deletions. Of course, you end up with a backup archive that is much larger than the source file system this way. With the --delete parameter, the backup is an exact mirror of the source.
--Doug On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > > > Does rsync have a similar stunt .. where you can keep several versions of > files? Maybe there's a svn/rsync stunt that would help here. > > > > -- Owen > > > On Dec 23, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > My toes are basking in the warm breeze from the back of my AMD64 server as >> I >> type this. In the summer I open a window. >> >> Backups are done like this: >> >> # >> #/home/roberts >> # >> echo "Starting /home/roberts backup" >>/home/roberts/backup.log >> date >>/home/roberts/backup.log >> >> /usr/bin/rsync -vurltD --delete >> --exclude-from=/home/roberts/.rsync/exclude >> /home/roberts /media/usb0 >>/home/roberts >> /backup.log 2>&1 >> >> echo "Completed /home/roberts backup" >>/home/roberts/backup.log >> date >>/home/roberts/backup.log >> >> where /media/usb0 is a slow but fast-enough 1 TB USB drive that powers >> itself off when not being used. When that one fills up I'll get another >> and >> modify the script to rsync in multiple chunks. >> >> Crude, but effective. >> >> --Doug >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts, RTI International drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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