Crontab doesn't complete a script - was Re: Longstanding rsync script no longer excludes

2016-09-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On 17/09/16 17:12, Clive Menzies wrote: WORKING version: # Good rsync options for uhuru_backups. rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=exclude_list --delete --delete-excluded" The exclude_list is a file with one excluded directory per line with an asterisk at the end directory name. $rsyn

Re: Longstanding rsync script no longer excludes - SOLVED

2016-09-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On 17/09/16 13:32, Mike Bird wrote $rsync $rsync_opts $password FileServer::rsync \ /home/backup/home/ > /var/rsync/FileServer.$NOW.log I don't see where the $excludes you built is actually used. On 17/09/16 13:44, Clive Menzies wrote: The script wasn't changed and I've always assume

Re: Longstanding rsync script no longer excludes

2016-09-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 17-09-2016 07:42, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Hi > > One of the issues we've encountered following a recent Jessie upgrade, > (around 5th September) is an rsync script seems to have changed behaviour. > > We've been using rsync for a daily automated incremental backup and > have three scripts to ma

Longstanding rsync script no longer excludes

2016-09-17 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi One of the issues we've encountered following a recent Jessie upgrade, (around 5th September) is an rsync script seems to have changed behaviour. We've been using rsync for a daily automated incremental backup and have three scripts to maintain an archive of daily snapshots for a week; we