Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2806 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

J Beris pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> Hello list-members,
>
> I have a question about Rsync. Like several people here, I use an
> external USB disk to make daily backups of my critical data. For this, I
> have written a shell script which mounts the disk as necessary and then
> calls rsync to do the actual backup.
>
> This works very well, except that if I delete a file in my home
> directory, have rsync do its thing at night, then the next morning that
> deleted file is gone from my backup too, so I can only go back one day.
> This is nice for a disk crash, but not for restoring data that was
> deleted 4 days ago, for instance. Can someone tell me if it is possible
> to have rsync retain the data in the backup for say another 14 or 30
> days before purging them? I have looked at the man page, but haven't
> found an answer to my question there. Does someone have an idea, please?
>
> I use the following command in my shell script to do the rsync backup:
> $RSYNC -alvz --delete --exclude=Cache --exclude=.beagle --exclude=trash
> --exclude=.thumbnails /home/<username> $MPOINT --log-file=/var/log/rsync
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Joop

The --delete means to delete files on the remote that are not on the local 
machine. That is why they are gone on the backup drive.

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Ken Schneider
SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
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