[Eug-lug] rsync problems

[Rob Hudson]

On 3/3/08, Ben Barrett <stircrazyben at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you using the "--partial" option for rsync?

No, but I just read the man page on it.

>  Sticking with rsync for now... do you have any reasons other that
>  network timeouts to desire a different solution?

No... if it would work, this would be the solution we're looking for.

>  The best approach I've seen using rsync for backups uses a wrapper to
>  setup a lock-file of sorts,
>  kicked off [repeatedly] by a cron job... the wrapper script will not
>  try to do 2 rsyncs at once, in short.

Hmmm, with partial it seems I could set up an hourly cron job (or so)
rather than a big nightly.  If things are pulled down little by
little, that might reduce the chance for a bad network disconnects.
And if it did disconnect, it would just pick up where it left off last
time.

My other idea was to use tar and do a big monthly tar, then do nightly
tars of the differences (archival tar?) and scp those down.  I'm not
sure which might be preferred.

Thanks,
Rob