Hi all,
Complements of the season.
I use a script to perform backup to a connected usb harddisk and I have
noticed that it appears to be writing all files each time instead of
updating only the changes. I am wondering if rsync has changed. I have
read the man pages but am not quite sure if I u
> I wanted to create the empty directories on the backup i.e. run, dev, also
Add something like this to the exclude-list:
/dev/*
/var/run/*
...
That'll copy the dir itself, but not its contents.
> directory links i.e. lib to lib64
I don't fully understand here. You have a '-a' (even a redundant
> I use a script to perform backup to a connected usb harddisk and I have
> noticed that it appears to be writing all files each time instead of
> updating only the changes. I am wondering if rsync has changed. I have
Oops, I forgot about this one.
What makes you think whole fiels are being
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:43:32 +, Paul Stear wrote:
> I use a script to perform backup to a connected usb harddisk and I have
> noticed that it appears to be writing all files each time instead of
> updating only the changes. I am wondering if rsync has changed. I
> have read the man pages b
On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:43:32 +, Paul Stear wrote:
> > I use a script to perform backup to a connected usb harddisk and I
> > have noticed that it appears to be writing all files each time
> > instead of updating only the changes. I am wonderi
On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> --one-file-system
Hi Neil,
Still not sure what the above will produce, I didn't find the man page
very readable. Take sys for example, if it is saying that the directory
would be created, would I still need to exclude everything under it?.
I
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:07:38 +, Paul Stear wrote:
> > --one-file-system
>
> Still not sure what the above will produce, I didn't find the man page
> very readable. Take sys for example, if it is saying that the directory
> would be created, would I still need to exclude everything under i
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 20:41 +, Paul Stear wrote:
> I am using ext2 on the usb backup disk. I'm not sure if I understand you
> correctly. What do you mean by Use --one-file-system ?
RTM :)
"This tells rsync to avoid crossing a filesystem boundary when
recursing. This does not limit the use
> symlink
> "/mnt/external/OneFileSystemBackup/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libopcodes.so"
> -> "/usr/lib32/binutils/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.18/libopcodes.so"
> failed: Operation not permitted (1)
This is most likely caused by the FAT filesystem on the target device.
Just like a lot of other errors, p
On Friday 28 December 2007, Roman Zilka wrote:
> > symlink
> > "/mnt/external/OneFileSystemBackup/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libopcod
> >es.so" -> "/usr/lib32/binutils/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.18/libopcodes.so"
> > failed: Operation not permitted (1)
>
> This is most likely caused by the FAT filesystem o
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