On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Erik Jakobsen <eja@urbakken.dk> wrote:
Greg Freemyer wrote:
Many thanks for the replies to my query. Not that I understand much of it, but I will study the man page, and hope I get more insight.
If you found this confusing, avoid the daemon mode unless you absolutely need it.
Are you trying to rsync between 2 directories on one computer, or between 2 computers?
If 2:
Can you ssh between the 2 machines?
Is rsync installed on both machines?
Greg
Thank you very much Greg.
I have a HDD with backup from a NAS server done via USB HDD.
If the backup was made by rsync, then the backup is just a simple copy of the data being backed up. The directory structure should be in place. rsync is basically just a directory tree copy tool that has optimizations to copy only changes if possible. So if you are copying a 10 MB file between 2 computers and 9.5 MB is the same as it was the last time you ran rsync, then rsync will compare the old copy to the new copy and just copy over the .5 MB of changes. The key thing to understand is that when rsync is done the source and the destination should be identical.
I want to restore the backup on another NAS server, and it also has USB on it.
And yes I can ssh and rsync is installed on the NAS server.
So this is in a way a rsync between 2 directories.
If the data on the USB drive is just a rsync'ed copy of the original you don't even have to use rsync to restore it. (but you can easily enough). Just plug the USB drive into the computer you want to restore to. It should automount in the /media directory. Use a file browser (Konqueror or Dolphin) to go the /media folder and see if you see the USB drive. Then open that folder and you should see the files that were backed up. Then just use the file browser to make a copy on the server wherever it is you want them.
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