Re: how to keep user/group information when rsyncing to windows for restoring back to linux later?

2009-06-26 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 26 Jun 2009, Wei, Xiaohai wrote: I want to backup the who linux system to a windows system. The backup will not be used in windows and will only be used to restore to linux system later. So I want to know is it possible to use rsync to keep the user/group and other permission

Re: (Not retransferring files deleted from destination)

2009-06-26 Thread Ed W
Low, Alex wrote: Hi Matt, Phew ! you were quick, and it's very much appreciated. Ok. We have three Solaris servers, and we have an Oracle database running on each of them, 1 Primary (prod) and 2 standbys (one 24 hours behind Prod and the other 4 hours behind Production). The Arch logs

Re: rsync is fantastic except for one usual feature we want from it ..please help ?

2009-06-26 Thread Ed W
Conway, Timothy wrote: That's not a usual feature. That's a very unusual feature, as it would never be included in a syncronization tool. Actually it's likely something which likely is popular in a sync tool, it's just that rsync is more like a mirror-ing tool than a full sync tool. I

Re: (Not retransferring files deleted from destination)

2009-06-26 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 16:21 +0100, Ed W wrote: I love rsync, but I recently discovered unison and for some tasks it works better. In particular it is designed to track changes on both sides and can spot the difference between something deleted and not yet copied. Perhaps give it a whirl with