Rsync backup issues using relative paths and LVM snapshots
Paul Slootman
paul+rsync at wurtel.net
Fri Jul 16 02:49:13 MDT 2010
On Fri 16 Jul 2010, Alex Ferrara wrote:
>
> I did think about remotely executing a mkdir before the backup, but one blocker is that I will be using Thecus NAS boxes as some off-site locations and I don't have shell access.
You could mkdir the directory locally somewhere (anywhere), and rsync
just that directory to the remote side, affectively doing a remote mkdir
via rsync. Repeat for deeper directories. If the remote directory
already exist, it shouldn't do any harm.
Paul
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