Les Mikesell wrote:
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.
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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