Stuart Barkley wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 at 11:34 -0000, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Is there any way to have rsync compare against a file with a *different* name?
What I'd like to do is compare a vm - whatsit.img against a backup - whatsit.current, that's a symlink to whatsit.timestamp, and if different, *then* make the copy (which my script will then move to whatsit.newtimestamp, and change the symlink to point to the new one, then remove the old (or maybe save an older copy or two).
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I'm not quite sure what you are trying to do. A couple of things that I do include:
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- Preserve historic backups as hard links (using 'cp'). This leaves
'backup/whatsit' as the current version (slightly inconsistent during the backup operation).
<snip> THANK YOU!
Duhhhhh... Lost: small, squishy wrinkled grey thing. If found, return here, sentimental value only.
I think rsync -HPavx whatsit.img backup_dir/ ln backup_dir/whatsit.img backup_dir/whatsit.<timestamp> solves my problem.
mark