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Hi all, I have an OpenSUSE terminal server and I would like to backup users home directories every day via Cron and Rsync. I am looking for a script or set of scripts that will enable me to...
will rsync use the delta-copy (rsync algorithm: portion of the file that has changes) with a regular NAS, or is a rsync server required.
Backup MS server 2003 using the built in utility.  I went thru the utility in the advanced mode and scheduled back jobs (one daily and one every Sunday). The scheduled jobs are not running at ...
I need help using rsync over ssh on Windows.  I have installed cwrsync server with openssh on a Windows XP machine.  I then installed cwrsync client on a Windows SBS 2003 machine. I would l...
Hi, I have an OpenSUSE 10.3 server and wish to periodically backup files in my home directory to a Cisco NSLU2 NAS in an incremental "copy only what has changed" fashion. The only way I kno...
Gday, I would like to be able to backup multiple users' history.dat files in their firefox profile folder. The file is found in: /home/<user>/.mozilla/firefox/<random>.profile/history.da...
I have a server that runs rsync to backup the files daily. Is this okay to keep a backup of my mysql databases? How does rsync work on a database file that would be continuously updating? ...
I have installed BackupPC on a Ubuntu 8.04 computer using Rsyncd as  the transfer method. Initialled. I am trying to backup a Windows XP computer which is running rsyncd as a service. That see...
We use Linux RHEL ES release 4 and try to copy files using rsync ssh between different locations. We use kernel version 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp on one machine and 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL on another. Th...
Is there a way to automate the rsync password or maybe disable? I am currently running rsync from a Windows command prompt and would like to run it from a .bat file. I have read through the co...
II have completed some code that syncs two folders from a call in PHP.  But I am having problerms capturing the results of the rsynce command.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  
I just heard from a friend of mine that there is a file copy limit of approx. 4GB with an ext3 file system (specially on the NAS systems such as Zyxel, NSLU2 etc.). Is that true?
Hello, I'm setting up two servers and I need to configure one of them to monitor two folders and sync everything of that folder to another server via sftp. I was thinking of using rsync to do...
I am having problems with synchronization of documents; error message i get is: Offline Files status- needs to synchronize 2 file(s) modified offline
I've a 2 disk NAS as described in the subject. I realized one disk is down since 2 weeks (and no rsync since then...). I tried to connect the disk to my WinXP Prof. desktop with the tool htt...
I use rsync to back up multiple windows 2003 servers using rsync.  Since the backup boxes are linux, I use subinacl to capture access control lists and a small c program to capture attributes....
I am trying to use BackupPC to backup a Windows XP client to a share on a Ubuntu 8.04 computer. The connection is established but within a few seconds rsyncd exits. Here is the log entry on th...
HI, I am serching the web for a good free or not so expensive Delta backup software. I've already try to use Delta copy who use rsync for the file synchronization, but I have an issue with it ...
I'm looking for a good, reliable rsync shell script which can be used for backing up my entire server on to another hard drive.
Hello, I'm using Deltacopy for backup but I don't know how to make it compress the files I checked the option for ( compress files during  transfer ) but it's not compressing is there oth...
I have a directory on a remote server that has all the files that I want to copy to a directory on a local server that contains only some of the files that I need from the remote directory.  I...
Hello Experts, Hello I am using Linux-centos was wondering How would I set up the cronjob using rsyncto do a incremental copy of a set of folders from one place to another. If files exist...
rsync -e "ssh -p22" -avz --delete /home/user2/public_html/virtualftp/* user1@*.*.168.26:/home/user1/public_html Works fine, but --delete argument doesent work
I have a script that does rsyncing, but i would like to change it to where certain functions can be defined command line. What i want to change are is adding the flags for rsync to use, ex...
Hello I have one linux box[prod-server] which is running red hat enterprise linux 4.5 and another laptop which is running redhat enterprise linux3.8[backup-server]. I have similar partitions...