Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 15:22, akonstam(a)trinity.edu wrote:
>>> I am wanting to backup my Linux machine at work using Rsync. I have a
>>> mounted SMB share which it will be backing up to. I would like to rsync
>>> "into" an archive, so the backup is all in one file. I've done
some
>>> googling and haven't found a real clear way to do an rsync backup into
>>> either a tar or gzip archive.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Why do you want to use rsync for this? Are you doing something
>> that you can not do using the -u option of tar or the -f option
>> or zip? If so, you may want to look at standard backup software.
>>
>>
> I agree that for backing up to a mounted filesystem archive rsync is not
> needed.
>
> I , however, am having a blank in figuring out how to backup to a
> filesystem that is not mounted but is on another machine. It seems like
> some combination of rsync (or scp) and tar aught to be able to do
> this. But the method eludes me. I mean something other than creating
> the tar file on the local machine and then copying to a remote
> filesystem on another machine.
>
Rsync isn't going to back up to a tar/zip file no matter how
you use it. It will copy to/from remote systems with the
syntax:
rsync -essh -av . user@remote_host:/path/to/dir
(current directory to remote)
rsync -essh -av user@remote_host:/path/to/dir .
(remote dir to current)
If you want automatic backups controlled by a remote server,
look at backuppc:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/. It
can use stock rsync on the client side while the server
uses a special compressed format for storage.
rsnapshot is another good one (
http://www.rsnapshot.org), but it doesn't
backup to an archive, however it works extremely well.
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