Rob Hudson wrote:
> I'm helping a friend set up a sort of backup solution. He's got a
> co-located Linux web server, and a Linux file server in his office
> behind a firewall. I set up an rsync script to synchronize (pull) all
> the web files down at night. The problem is that it's dying about
On Mon, March 3, 2008 9:29 am, Rob Hudson wrote:
> Hi LUG,
I set up an rsync script to synchronize (pull) all
> the web files down at night. The problem is that it's dying about 25%
> of the way through. From the log error output it appears that since
> rsync can sometimes take a bit of time, so
> > Are you using the "--partial" option for rsync?
>
> No, but I just read the man page on it.
You should also check out the "--link-dest" option, which is a nice
way of doing "incremental" style backups where you only backup the
files that have been modified since the last backup.
--
Hal Pome
Rob Hudson wrote:
Hi LUG,
I'm helping a friend set up a sort of backup solution. He's got a
co-located Linux web server, and a Linux file server in his office
behind a firewall. I set up an rsync script to synchronize (pull) all
the web files down at night. The problem is that it's dying abou
Rsync --partial still needs to iterate all the files/paths you specify, of
course, so it will still use some system resources... I'd suggest doing some
system load-testing (for rsync differences), and also gaining a sense of how
much file change happens ("ls -lt"?) as well as how much actually matt
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
Are you using the "--partial" option for rsync?
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.
Sticking with rsync for now... do you have any
Hi LUG,
I'm helping a friend set up a sort of backup solution. He's got a
co-located Linux web server, and a Linux file server in his office
behind a firewall. I set up an rsync script to synchronize (pull) all
the web files down at night. The problem is that it's dying about 25%
of the way thr
