Hi, Matt-- Wow. This looks great.
So let me see if I understand correctly. First, are the \ characters followed by a return, or are they all on a single line? In other words, is this entered in the terminal as one command, or does it need to be broken up somehow? And then each of the symlinks for the directories specified will be treated as symlinks, but any symlinks below them will still be treated as symlinks? Thanks again. Best, Jeffrey on 10/3/09 7:21 PM, Matt McCutchen at m...@mattmccutchen.net wrote: > On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 15:47 -0700, J. Ellis wrote: >> I have the following 3 commands which are supposed to run every night >> to back up my web server: >> >> rsync -avve ssh --numeric-ids --delete --ignore-errors >> myu...@myisp.com:/usr/home/myuser /Volumes/Downloads >> rsync -avve ssh --copy-links --numeric-ids --delete --ignore-errors >> myu...@myisp.com:/usr/home/myuser/mail_boxes >> /Volumes/Downloads/myuser/mail_boxesBU >> rsync -avve ssh --copy-links --numeric-ids --delete --ignore-errors >> myu...@myisp.com:/usr/home/myuser/mail_boxes >> /Volumes/Downloads/myuser/mail_boxesBU >> >> The way this works is that there are two symlinks on the server to the >> mail_boxes and public_html directories. I didn¹t want all the symlinks >> within those directories to be followed, so these I backup separately >> to mail_boxesBU and public_htmlBU respectively. > > There happens to be a trick for "copying a few dirlinks" without copying > all of them: use --relative and specify an additional source argument > that goes through each symlink with a trailing slash. E.g.: > > rsync -avve ssh --numeric-ids --delete --ignore-errors -R \ > myu...@isp.com:/usr/home/./myuser \ > myu...@isp.com:/usr/home/./myuser/mail_boxes/ \ > myu...@isp.com:/usr/home/./myuser/public_html/ \ > /Volumes/Downloads > > For more about this, see: > > http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2006-February/014838.html > >> Unfortunately, when the first command is run, both are deleted from >> the local volume, and then must be completely downloaded from scratch >> each night after the deletion, instead of simply being updated. This >> doesn¹t always work for some reason, and the next morning one or both >> of the directories are just gone. >> >> Is there some way of excluding the mail_boxesBU and public_htmlBU >> directories from --delete? > > If you want to keep your existing approach, yes, you can just use > --exclude='/myuser/mail_boxesBU' and --exclude='/myuser/public_htmlBU'. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
