rotating dirs created with link-dest
Steven Levine
steve53 at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 19 00:26:36 MDT 2010
In <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010181323010.40834 at oceanpt.safeport.com>, on 10/18/10
at 01:41 PM, doug at safeport.com said:
Hi Doug,
>If I change link-dest=../../201009/myserver/home/ it starts a new base.
>Via google and RTFM it seems that naming schemes keep the name of the
>link-dest directory constant. Is this a requirement or am I yet missing
>one more thing?
I suspect the option name is confusing you. --link-dest names the source
of the basis files so you don't want it to be empty (or new).
You need to reverse the options as in
rsync srcdir --link-dest=last-backup-dir new-backupdir
Steven
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