Re: --delete and --files-from

2008-06-25 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 16:26 -0400, Aaron Davies wrote: > I want to maintain mirror of a sliding window of the last N > subdirectories of a particular directory. My first attempt was to use > ls -t|head to generate a list of dirs to pass to --files-from (with -- > recursive). It's working nicel

Re: link-dest storage saving on backup server not on usb hard drive

2008-06-25 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:50 -0700, fglos wrote: > I have setup rsync to backup another linux computer with the link-dest option > and realized storage savings. 1st backup is 31gb, daily backups only take > approx 4gb. But when I rsync with link-dest to usb external drive all > backups take up 31gb

Re: link-dest storage saving on backup server not on usb hard drive

2008-06-25 Thread David Overton
Hi, On 26/06/2008, fglos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have setup rsync to backup another linux computer with the link-dest option > and realized storage savings. 1st backup is 31gb, daily backups only take > approx 4gb. But when I rsync with link-dest to usb external drive all > backups t

--delete and --files-from

2008-06-25 Thread Aaron Davies
I want to maintain mirror of a sliding window of the last N subdirectories of a particular directory. My first attempt was to use ls -t|head to generate a list of dirs to pass to --files-from (with -- recursive). It's working nicely to add the new files to the mirror each day, but --delete i

link-dest storage saving on backup server not on usb hard drive

2008-06-25 Thread fglos
I have setup rsync to backup another linux computer with the link-dest option and realized storage savings. 1st backup is 31gb, daily backups only take approx 4gb. But when I rsync with link-dest to usb external drive all backups take up 31gb. Following is 1st the one that works and 2nd with no

delete of stat xattr failed

2008-06-25 Thread Daniel Maher
Hello all, For quite some time now i've been seeing this error during my nightly backups (though i've simply ignored it until now :P ) : rsync: delete of stat xattr failed for "": Operation not permitted (1) Where is, of course, any one of a number of items. Both machines are running "rsync ve