rsync problem

[Amos Shapira]

While we are talking about rsync+backup scripts. Here is a one-liner I use
to backup my disk, taken from my local Linux user group mailing list (SLUG):

rdiff-backup -v2 --print-statistics --exclude-other-filesystems ::/home
'/media/FreeAgent Drive_/Backup/wanaka-home/'

It's available from package "rdiff-backup" on ubuntu and the upstream web
site is http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/

Cheers,

--Amos

On 22 March 2011 22:38, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011, Shlomo Solomon wrote about "Re: rsync problem":
> > OK - that makes sense - I'll try adding --ignore-errors. I'm not worried
> about
> > risking a massive deletion since my script checks for an "unusual" change
> in
> > the size of my backed up directories, so I guess I'd catch that.
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand what the --backup option does or why it would
> solve
> > the massive deletion problem. What does --backup do that isn't done by
> the
> > params I already use (-rlvtogS)? I looked at the man page and it's not
> really
> > clear on that point.
>
> The --backup option means that files on the destination system which are
> about
> to be lost (because they were either deleted or modified on the source
> system)
> are instead saved (with a new name, or under a different directory if you
> also
> use the --backup-dir). I use this option as a sort of "incremental" backup
> -
> I have a useful snapshot of the last full backup, but also copies of all
> files as they were at each intermediate change, in case I want to recover
> a file that I deleted or modified a month ago, for example. When you do use
> --backup, massive deletion is not a terrible problem, because all the
> deleted
> files are saved in the destination filesystem anyway.
>
> Nadav.
>
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