On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 15:22, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
