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MocroNL
October 2nd, 2012, 08:25 AM
Hey guys. I just installed rsync and want to start a backup. It look likes it works but the folder I'am backing up to is empty after the backup.
This is the output I get after I start a backup.
opening connection using: ssh tls-ams-ns-03 rsync --server -vvulogDtprze.iLsf --partial . /etc/bind/
sending incremental file list
delta-transmission enabled
total: matches=0 hash_hits=0 false_alarms=0 data=0
sent 29 bytes received 15 bytes 29.33 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
BAckup script(Backup.txt): sync -avhe ssh -varuzP /home/backups/ tls-ams-ns-02:/etc/bind/
By the way I'am backing up via ssh which is set up without using a password every time a backup starts.
Does anyone know why my backup folder is still empty?
Thanks in advance.
MocroNL
October 29th, 2012, 03:49 PM
Bump! Can noone answer my mysterious question?:-\"
papibe
October 29th, 2012, 11:31 PM
Hi MocroNL.
My first guess would be that the remote user doesn't have access to /etc/bind.
If that is not the case, I would try to do a full mirror (without the option -u).
BTW, since rsync uses ssh by defualt you can shorten your command to something like this:
rsync -avhzP /home/backups/ tls-ams-ns-02:/etc/bind/
Let us know how it goes.
Regards.
markbl
October 30th, 2012, 12:48 AM
Why are both of you writing "sync" in your command line? Surely that should be rsync?
MocroNL
October 31st, 2012, 11:37 AM
Heey, thanks for the reply!
I have tried: (rsync -avhzP /home/backups/ tls-ams-ns-02:/etc/bind/) But I got the same output. The rights of the map(bind) are 777 atm.
root@TLS-AMS-ST-12:/home/backups# rsync -avhzP /home/backups/ tls-ams-ns-02:/etc/bind/
sending incremental file list
sent 26 bytes received 12 bytes 76.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
Greets.
papibe
October 31st, 2012, 09:08 PM
That may be a correct output is there's nothing new to transfer.
Try forcing a change in a file, and then running rsync in order to see if it transfers it.
Another alternatice: create an empty file:
touch /home/backups/dummy.txt
Next time, rsync should transfer that file.
Let us know how it goes.
Regards.
MocroNL
November 1st, 2012, 10:11 AM
Thank you papibe! It works and I now see what I did wrong.....
rsync -avhzP (/home/backups/)= Send (tls-ams-ns-02:/etc/bind/)= Receive.
I wanted to backup the /etc/bind into backups.
So It should be like this?
rsync -avhzP tls-ams-ns-02:/etc/bind/ /home/backups/
Because I dont wanna make a script on every server that I'am going to backup...
Many thanks!
papibe
November 1st, 2012, 03:03 PM
:D Glad your sort it out.
Please mark this thread as SOLVED (read here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnansweredPostsTeam/SolvedThreads)), when you have the chance.
Regards.
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