[Bulk] Re: Backup with rsync problem
William Case
billlinux at rogers.com
Mon May 5 05:02:20 UTC 2008
Hi g;
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 04:04 +0000, g wrote:
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> William Case wrote:
> > Hi; I have just discovered to my chagrin that my rsync backup script
> > has not being updating my dot files (/.foo).
> >
> > My script is 'rsync -auH --del
> > --filter=-_/home/bill/.dbus /home/bill/ /backup/bill/'.
^ a typo
/home/bill/ is on sdb8 while /backup/bill/ is mounted on sda5
(LABEL=backup)
Unless I missed something, they should be different names as far as
rsync is concerned.
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> >
> > What should it be?
> >
> > Regards Bill
> >
>
> this is one [shortest] of many rsync scripts that has been working along with
> rest over several years.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> ### fn= rs.hda1
> ## use= run rsync backup of hda6 to hda1
> echo "syncing hda6 to hda1"
> rsync -a -u -v /hd/a/06/ /hd/a/01/ > /hd/a/00-rs.syoa.`date +%Y.%m%d.%H%M.%S`
>
My rsync doesn't seem much different. Your -v is verbose, my -H is a
hard link -- (probably don't need it).
> i am curious as to your '--filter=' as you are showing '-_' before filter path,
> and you are directing source to destination of *same name*. this in it self can
> cause you problems as they are same, therefore they are already synced.
>
> you should try a different destination.
>
> hth. good luck.
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