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Explicitly backup selected files/folders with rsync
I want to make a backup of some specific files/folders of my $HOME to an external hard drive. I am using rsync with the following syntax:
rsync -avh --delete-excluded --exclude-from=.backup.lst ...
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Rsync equiv of “do not terminate”
Is there anyway to not terminate, but instead when this type of error is encountered?
sent 605.85M bytes received 19.89G bytes 483.43K bytes/sec total
size is 248.71G speedup is 12.13 rsync ...
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Check for duplicate files in two collections, ignoring duplicates within A
I have four similar large collections of website files. They are archived copies of a similar directory tree from different times in the past.
I want to merge them all to the most recent collection, ...
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Linux Backup Program with Web UI That Supports Duplicity Style Encrypted Backup and rsync
I'm looking for a backup tool that supports duplicity style encrypted backups and rsync. The status of the backups for several different directories should be shown summarizes in a web UI or simple ...
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Why does rsync skip a sub-folder named “core”?
I'm using the following command to synch files from one folder to another on my local OSX system:
rsync -avC ./src ~/Sites
Inside of ./src there are several sub-folders:
./src/assets
./src/core
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Can I use Acronis to create and sync a mirror of my main drive?
Having had a complete disk failure the other day, and spending two days getting everything back to normal (read: i had backups of data, but re-installing apps and a million little configs were the ...
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What kind of files are optimal for rsync?
As to my best knowledge the algorithm within the rsync tool will slice the file and compute for each slice a hash. So I assume that there are files where the hash algo will rebuild a file without ...
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rsnapshot stalled backup
Some months ago, I've installed rsnapshot on my local home-server in order to back up all clients in my home network. Since these clients aren't 24/7 online, rsnapshot does a lot of "roll-backs" of ...
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what is the difference between rsnapshot and rdiffbackup?
What is the difference between rsnapshot and rdiffbackup?
Which is better for backing up a new snapshot of my laptop (over the Internet from some remote location) to my server (which already has the ...
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Perserve icon with rsync
I was under the impression from here among other research, that rsync was the command used to sync directories and any contents they have.
I have tried the following commands:
rsync -avzr ...
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Using rsync to synchronise folders without overwriting files of same name
I would like to synchronise the contents of two directories.
Without overwriting but to create a copy if two files have the same name, but different sizes
Without duplicating if two files have the ...
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Would rsync save meaningful amount of data transfer for compressed/encrypted files?
Would rsync save meaningful amount of data transfer for sync'ing
1) zip files,
2) ASCII armored GPG encrypted files, and
3) Mathematica .mx files,
respectively ?
A typical scenario is that I ...
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rsync cygwin also hangs without ssh
I've been using rsync installed via cygwin on two Windows 7 PCs to sync my music and picture collection, but eventually it always stops transferring after some time. I've googled and it seems that ...
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rsync: archiving over ssh
I'd like to use rsync to regularly archive a local directory containing upwards of 4G of data, using a low-privileges user account on a remote machine that has write access to only the backup ...
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Find modified files from rsync backup script
I'm using rsync on my Ububtu Linux server to take a time machine like backup of the system. Every hour, a cronjob runs the following script (partial excerpt):
rsync -a --link-dest=/backup/current ...
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Do Linux swap partitions need to be cloned?
I'm in the process of cloning my hard disk in order to test some unstable software.
One of the partitions is Linux-swap. From my understanding, it can be used by the os as additional ram. So this ...
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How to login a user with decrypted FileVault home directory?
I'm using OSX Snow Leopard and a FileVault protected home directory for my user. To backup my HDD I make a live rsync backup of a whole filesystem to external drive:
rsync [parameters] / ...
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Rsync Backups change_dir failed
I've made a very simple script to perform backups:
#!/bin/bash
# ~/backup.sh
(
while read line
do
rsync -az $line rbmj@example.com:~/
done
) < backupdirs
And backupdirs:
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rsync can't work after restart SSH service
Usually I use command
rsync -av --delete someroot/somedir user@ipaddress:/someroot/.
to synchronize somedir between my Linux servers.It works fine.But after I restart the SSH service on the remote ...
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Single-user, multiple-computer versioning system
I have two computers (work and home) and wish to set up a version control system for source code and TeX documents. There are no collaborators (i.e., single-user/editor). Most of the source files are ...
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rsync from multiple sources
I have a 40G music collection that I need to sync to a server in another country.
At the moment I am rsyncing it across, however I have that same 40G collection on two machines with two internet ...
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Rsync on Windows XP works fine on-demand, but hangs when run as a scheduled task
I want to use Rsync to back up a web site to a Windows XP system that gets backed up to tape every night. I've looked at cwRsync and Grsync, and they both work fine, as long as I'm running them while ...
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Rsync from Linux to Windows producing problems with back slash
I know if I was having an issue with rsync with characters I'd use --iconv= - but this issue is some file names have black slashes in them, and I don't have the ability to rename the original files.
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rsync with Cygwin creating weird directories
I'm trying to use rsync to backup data from a local shared drive to a remove server. Both the local machine and the remote server are running Cygwin under Windows XP. I use the following command:
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What if files change while rsync is running?
I am using rsync to copy ~10GB of small files. What happens if the files in the source directory are modified while rsync is running?
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Rsync with a list of variables
I am trying to write a bash script that will rsync only a specific subset of folders. I am trying to figure out a more slick so that I can just add a variables such as FOLDER1='name of folder in home ...
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rsync stuck with the --checksum option
I use back-in-time to backup my Linux installation. It serves as an advanced wrapper for the rsync command.
Today I tried to add /var/log to the list of folders to be backed up and it caused some ...
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How to avoid duplicates when copying files that have been renamed at the destination
I have to get pictures from a folder – with subfolders which are updated automatically – with their extensions.
These files have to be copied in a folder where a website based on PHP will edit them ...
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rsync option --log-file seems is not working
I am using the --log-file option in rsync to see the logs. But when I tried to run, it says:
--log-file unrecognized option
Here is my command:
#/usr/bin/rsync -av -u ...
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Rsync and Windows 7
Can someone give me any tips on setting up some sort of Rsync server/client on Windows 7 to run rsync between both my web hosting server, and a backup server that I have running Ubuntu? I've tried ...
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Bash script: dealing with spaces when running indirectly commands
I have been struggling for a while with the folllowing problems I have written scripts in which any command run is first put into a string, and then executed. That way, the command is written only ...
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rsync complaining about `missing trailing-"` in a Bash script
Trying to rsync files from one server to the other in a screen session. Instead of writing the long command every single time, I decided to put in a Bash script. However, when I run it, I get a ...
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Does rsync require 2 computers?
I am wanting to use something like rsync (i think). I am using Windows 7, I would like to be able to sync files/folder to other Disks on 1 computer, sometimes, just keep 2 folders or more in sync on ...
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parallelizing rsync
I just moved and discovered after some trial and error that somewhere between my home and my remote server, there is some throttling going on...but the throttling is not very intelligent. It only ...
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How to synchronize between differently structured directories using rsync (or other program)
Does anyone of you know how to perform the following task:
Suppose you have two directory trees, which I will call source and target. They may have a very different structure, but could contain many ...
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rsync over SSH with cron in osx-environment
I want to automatically download files and folders from a Linux server to which I have an SSH (and FTP) account. The files shall be downloaded on a regular basis (I suppose a cron is the right tool to ...
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rsync from HFS+ (OSX) to NFS (FreeNAS) with special characters
I have inadvertently created a mess. I have a drive mounted on a Mac running 10.5.8 and a FreeNAS 0.7.2 box. I had been mounting the FreeNAS share on OSX via SMB, but recently learned that I was doing ...
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Which rsync client can I use on windows 7?
I would like to know if, beside cwRsync, there exists a good rsync client for Windows (and more specially Windows 7 x64).
This client should support the following operations :
backup of a directory ...
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Rsync in bash script not recognizing spaces
An excerpt from a bash script I'm using to backup some photos:
#!/bin/bash
FROM="/cygdrive/f/\"Trip to Austria\""
TO="/cygdrive/s/\"Trip to Austria\""
rsync -av $FROM $TO
When I print the final ...
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rsync directory complete but some files md5sum is different
I'm using rsync to copy a directory from host A to host B. After the rsync is completed successfully, I check the files with the directory and find that some files' md5sum is different but the ...
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Live rsync/directory monitor for Windows?
Right now, we have a central Linux server and several satellite Windows servers dispersed around the region. Every 15 minutes, the Linux server rsyncs files from the others (which are running the ...
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Sync files from linux server to windows machine
I have a linux webserver, running apache and mysql. I want to back up on my windows desktop pc the remote files (/home and /var/lib/mysql) with a total capacity of 34 GB. The point is that i need to ...
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rsync issue - use of remote command removes the directory structure
This is my requirement:
rsync from remote directory only files that are created in last 4 days.
I am using an older version of rsync
$ rsync --help
rsync version 2.6.8 protocol version 29
so ...
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SSH Rsync to a remote server through an intermediary server.
I am going to explain this problem as best I can, so please bare with me.
I am on a linux server (server A), I can SSH to another linux server (server B). Once on server B, I can SSH to another ...
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How to achieve NAS to NAS rsync for offsite backup?
I'm interested in a home NAS solution that would look like this:
local NAS box for home backups
remote NAS box (at my parents) as an offsite copy
periodic rsync over the internet from "local" to ...
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rsync only a specific subset of directories
I need to use rsync to synchronize several directories from an rsync server.
The whole rsync module is quite large and I like to avoid coping the other, not required parts as well.
I have the wanted ...
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Don't copy files that cause an input/output error
When copying files from a faulty hd with cp, rsync, or scp, the faulty files which can't be read anymore are also partly copied to the destination directory.
Is there an option to automatically skip ...
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Is it more efficient to rsync uncompressed text data or the same data gzipped?
Rsync only copies over the changed parts of a file. So if I have a large data dump, for example a SQL database in text format, and I want to copy it to my local machine using as little bandwidth as ...
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scp to server with encrypted home directory
I am setting up an ubuntu server to use as remote backup and I plan to use rsync to keep it up-to-date. I've encrypted the home directory though, which now prevents direct connection using standard ...
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rsync on Windows
I'm trying to run rsync on Windows with the cwrsync port.
I'm issuing the following command (note that this is just a dry run):
rsync -nPaAz foouser@webxx.example.com:/home/foobar/webapps/barbaz/ ...
