I'm using rsync to maintain two copies of a music library on my main workstation and a server running MPD. I'm wondering about using the script below as a basis for cron to update my MPD db if new files have been added or existing files modified:
Would it be ill advised to simply put ~/music/*.mp3 for FILENAME? with ~160GB of music in that dir?
what file system are you using and what's the limit on the number of files allowed in a directory of that filesystem
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Originally Posted by pmicka
Would I perhaps be able to use -type d to monitor the directory itself for changes? In which case, what denotes a change to the directory (ie, adding a file?)
perhaps using the -mmin setting on your find call above would work?
Does anyone know if rsync will work without ssh or rsh? I am trying to use rsync to synchronize files on two servers, one a production server and the other a standbyserver. The problem is that I have't been given the ok to install openssh on our productions servers, so I am trying to make my job... (4 Replies)
Hi All
I am trying to rsync the directories between two servers. The source directory is huge (8 GB) and I have the need to take an offsite backup. The directory I am trying to rsync has 774 permissions and are owned by a user/ group. To startup I backed up the source directory and restored... (1 Reply)
Hey there guys I'm trying to rsync up a subdirectory only. For example
/Volumes/media/WebDocuments/2006/* but not
/Volumes/media/WebDocuments/2007/*
rsync -va /Volumes/media/WebDocuments/2006/ \
user@host:/backups/2006/
If I do it that way I get only the contents... (3 Replies)
Hi, I have problem with incremental copy of files from source to destination.
I would like to copy different sources to different destinations. I made a backup script which look like that:
curd=$(date +%w)
day=$(date +%A)
mkdir -p /home/backup/DATA/$day
case $curd in
1|2|3|4|5)
... (7 Replies)
I have folders that sync over the network with an external software. I would like to know if rsync can be used to only sync permissions on files on the files. Remember I just want the permissions on the source to be copied over to the destination's already synced files. (2 Replies)
I have a folder on a server that I update from different machines. So I think Rsync sounds like a good solution but I'm not sure how to make it a bidirectional check for updating, because if I work on the file on one of my client machines it could be newer than the server. (2 Replies)
Hi there
Does anybody know of a way that i can, instead of issuing a --delete when syncing one directory to another, I can instead somehow receive a list of what would be deleted, but not actually delete it ?
basically, people are occasionally putting files into one of synced folders, but... (2 Replies)
hi all,
i didnt know where to place the question on this site but seen as though it relates to a script i have done so here...
my issue is this...
i have 2 servers.
On server 1 (master) I have a structure such as /home/test/folder1,/home/test/folder2 and /home/test/folder3.
On server... (0 Replies)
Hello folks;
I'm using rsync on my Ubuntu servers to sync a remote folders on a remote machine to a local folders on a local machine.
one thing i couldn't get to work is how to exclude folder. I know i'm suppose to use "exclude" argument but every time i do, i still see the excluded directory... (0 Replies)