temp name for destination directory, move in place after successfull complete?

2010-01-01 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hello everyone, In --link-dest/--copy-dest/--compare-dest modes, I'd like to distinguish between destination directories that have been completely rsynced and the ones that are only partially synced because of a network failure. In short, I'd like to mimic the behaviour rync has on individual fil

Re: rsync email notification on success and failure + Log

2010-01-01 Thread Warren Oates
Hi: Let cron(8) run your script for you. Cron will happily email you the verbose output from rsync after its task has run. man cron man crontab man 5 crontab On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Sébastien Arpin wrote: > Hi, > > I have a bash script for rsync that should tranfer all my filer from one

Occasional but consistent trouble with --filter

2010-01-01 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
I'm running rsync version 3.0.6 in order to migrate a set of objects from an old server to a new one. The set of object to migrate is basically composed of mail dirs which follow a well-defined name pattern, such that I believe it should be easily handled by the --filter option. I'm infact attemp

Rsync, CP and Cron job workaround?

2010-01-01 Thread Al Grant
Hi, I have a Linux based NAS, which unfortunately appears to be a bit underpowered, heres why I say that: 5 PC's backup to the NAS on a weekly full with hourly incrementals 7 days a week between 7am and 6pm (2 week retention policy). There is no problem with that. Where there is a problem is ge

Re: Occasional but consistent trouble with --filter

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > '--filter=-!r /srv/vhome/*/users/*/.mail/' u...@oldserver:/srv/vhome /srv/ > See the manpage discussion of anchoring at the top-level of the transfer for why your filter rule should not have a "/srv" prefix. The 'r' modifier makes the

Re: Rsync, CP and Cron job workaround?

2010-01-01 Thread Al Grant
rsync version is 3.0.6 protocol version 30. -Al -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Rsync%2C-CP-and-Cron-job-workaround--tp26989197p26990034.html Sent from the Samba - rsync mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the