Rsync like Time Machine

[Greg Deback (rsync)]

Hi,

As for the destination directory and the backup directory (--backup-dir),
rsync will create the missing subdirectory (one level below the existing
dir only), so yes for /<somedir-exists>/<newdir-with-date>, no
for /<somedir-exists>/<newdir-with-year>/<newdir-with-month> on january
1st... But if you want this dir to be a symlink, you can't.

Greg

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Clint Olsen <clint.olsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been very interested in these discussions and uses of rsync as a
> "clone" of Time Machine. A couple of things have been keeping me from a
> fully automated solution. I'd like to eliminate the need for Samba/NFS
> mounts of any kind, because they have proven to be unreliable for me and
> under some operating environments (Cygwin) it breaks --link-dest. In most
> of the articles I've read, a target "date" directory is created with some
> sort of "latest" symlink for the --link-dest parameter. I can accomplish
> those tasks via remote ssh commands, but I was hoping there was a better
> way. For example, is there any circumstance where you can coax rsync into
> creating a target directory that's not there already?
>
> % rsync <source> user at nas::module/<somedir-exists>/<newdir-with-date>
>
> So, newdir-with-date doesn't exist (yet). I would like to have rsync
> create it for me. Is that even possible?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Clint
>
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