Re: Backup Script - tar vs rsync

2002-10-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya alan one day... i'll go play with --backup option to rsync - another to add to the todo list from when i was using rsync, i think the default is NOT to do a delete ... that if its deleted from the master, that the rsync target does NOT delete it too rsync --delete will del

Re: Backup Script - tar vs rsync

2002-10-21 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 22 October 2002 3:12 am, Alvin Oga wrote: > rsync .> possible bad stuff > - if the master erased foo.txt, the backup will also be erased Not if you use the --backup --backup-dir options. In fact I use these to create an incre

Re: Backup Script - tar vs rsync

2002-10-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Auke Jilderda wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 12:19:11PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Read the following page, then modify the associated script to your > > system. It's geared toward tape. For drive-to-drive, I'd suggest rsync > > rather than tar. > Why? that