On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:17:32PM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Julian Underwood wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > 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. > > > > Does anyone have a couple of one-liners or links they could recommend? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Julian > > > > > 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. > > Mikkel -- 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. ======================================================================= I'm a Lisp variable -- bind me! ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
