On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Steven Levine wrote:
on 10/18/10 at 01:41 PM, [email protected] said:
Hi Doug,
If I change link-dest=../../201009/myserver/home/ it starts a new base.
Via google and RTFM it seems that naming schemes keep the name of the
link-dest directory constant. Is this a requirement or am I yet missing
one more thing?
I suspect the option name is confusing you. --link-dest names the source
of the basis files so you don't want it to be empty (or new).
You need to reverse the options as in
rsync srcdir --link-dest=last-backup-dir new-backupdir
Steven
Thanks Steve. I must really be dense, without all the options
---------------source------------------
--------------------base---------------- ------dest------
rsync -e ssh [email protected]:/home
--link-dest=/backup/201009/newharbor/home 201010/newharbor/
rsync -e ssh [email protected]:/home
--link-dest=/backup/201003/newharbor/home 201010/newharbor/
The first command copies all files, the second command copied about 13 of 40 GB.
The options on both commands are: -vaxH --numeric-ids --delete
--exclude=/home/apache/logs
The files are on backup box running some version of Linux. The command is running on
FBSD 8.1 using rsync version 3.0.7 protocol version 30. Thanks for any help.
There is no substitute for FTFM. man rsync actually :) I come up with the
following (useful to me options)
-a -rlptg
-r, --recursive recurse into directories
-l, --links copy symlinks as symlinks
-p, --perms preserve permissions
-t, --times preserve modification times
-g, --group preserve group
-R, --relative use relative path names
-i, --itemize-changes output a change-summary for all updates
-n, --dry-run perform a trial run with no changes made
--exclude-from=FILE read exclude patterns from FILE
--list-only list the files instead of copying them
-c, --checksum skip based on checksum, not mod-time & size
--link-dest=DIR hardlink to files in DIR when unchanged
Using -vvni I believe I can debug this. Base on testing with my workstation
perhaps using -c will do it. That is obviously not the complete answer or the
differenct link-dest values would not work so differently. I built the 2nd
command using up-arrow and backspace so no typos (I am pretty sure).
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