a question of backup
Gustav H Meyer
gustav at gcis.gov.za
Mon Feb 27 13:04:06 UTC 2006
Hi Gabriel,
On 27/02/06 13:45, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> Hi this mirror - non-historical backup is precisely what I want. Just wanted
> to ask you what the part "--delete" does? I don't want to delete the contents
> of my /home.
Please read the man pages for rsync!!! rsync is very powerful and
please don't hold me responsible for any loss of data.
See: http://samba.org/rsync/
Got the following from the man page:
--delete
This tells rsync to delete any files on the receiving side that
aren’t on the sending side. Files that are excluded from transfer
are excluded from being deleted unless you use --delete-excluded.
This option has no effect if directory recursion is not selected.
This option can be dangerous if used incorrectly! It is a very
good idea to run first using the dry run option (-n) to see what
files would be deleted to make sure important files aren’t listed.
If the sending side detects any I/O errors then the deletion of any
files at the destination will be automatically disabled. This is
to prevent temporary filesystem failures (such as NFS errors) on the
sending side causing a massive deletion of files on the
destination. You can override this with the --ignore-errors
option.
> But also will it copy ALL of the files each time it is run or will it compare
> the source and destination and just update where necessary?
rsync features (http://samba.org/rsync/features.html)
rsync is a file transfer program for Unix systems. rsync uses the
"rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for bringing
remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences
in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of
files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand.
I use rsync extensively and wish that all open source software
repositories where available via rsync but at the same time I can
see why it is not used. It requires processing power on the local
and the remote side and is thus open for abuse.
Regards,
Gustav
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