Questions with rsync

[Robert L Cochran]

This is a very useful thread for me to follow. You asked some 
interesting questions that led to answers with complete rsync scripts 
provided. That's what I call a really great response!

It does help if you read `man rsync` and the web resources carefully. 
They can answer a lot of questions.

You may want to read a copy of the book "Backup and Recovery" by W. 
Curtis Preston. It was published by O'Reilly in 2007 and might even 
feature current technologies...and it is available from Amazon. Preston 
wrote an earlier book with almost the same title, whuch is out of print. 
That one is "Unix Backup and Recovery" and I have it here.

http://www.backupcentral.com/

Bob




On 06/13/2009 10:22 PM, gmspro wrote:
> --- On Sat, 6/6/09, Mail Lists<lists at sapience.com>  wrote:
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>> From: Mail Lists<lists at sapience.com>
>> Subject: Re: Questions with rsync
>> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."<fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Cc: "GMS S"<gmspro at yahoo.com>
>> Date: Saturday, June 6, 2009, 6:18 AM
>> On 06/04/2009 06:28 AM, Steven Stern
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>>> On 06/04/2009 12:53 AM, GMS S wrote:
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>>>> mv backup.8 backup.9
>>>> mv backup.7 backup.8
>>>> mv backup.6 backup.7
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>>    Have you tried rdiff-backup ? It will do all this
>> for you ... and its
>> as easy to use as rsync alone.
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> Do rsync and rdiff-backup have the option of compression.
> I think they just copy the files.
> Is it possible to backup 20GB partition into 8GB or below 8GB using rsync or rdiff-backup?
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