Re: Rsync backup issues using relative paths and LVM snapshots

2010-07-16 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 16 Jul 2010, Alex Ferrara wrote: I did think about remotely executing a mkdir before the backup, but one blocker is that I will be using Thecus NAS boxes as some off-site locations and I don't have shell access. You could mkdir the directory locally somewhere (anywhere), and rsync

Re: Rsync backup issues using relative paths and LVM snapshots

2010-07-16 Thread Jamie Lokier
Alex Ferrara wrote: My problem is that if I mark a directory to have a snapshot created before rsync and use the -R (relative) option, the directory structure on the destination system will be the relative path of where I mounted the snapshot (/mnt/sync-snapshot in my case). If I don't use