issues syncing between one host and another

[Jonathan Aquilina]

readlink works on aix through the ibm toolkit package of coreutils. I will
reevaluate the script tomorrow as its late here at work and im not
functioning at 100% capacity.


On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote:

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> Either you are completely not getting the concept or your OS is not
> capable of this functionality.  I haven't touched AIX since 1995 so I
> can't really say which.
>
> So, again, I am suggesting you try rsnapshot.  Either it will fail and
> prove that AIX can't do this or it will give you a functioning example
> of this backup concept to look at and decide if you want to do it
> differently.
>
> On 09/05/13 17:44, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > After sym linking I am still having no luck
> >
> > rsync: change_dir#4
> > "/home/aquj001/recievingDir.2013-09-05--23:40:58" failed: No such
> > file or directory (2) rsync error: errors selecting input/output
> > files, dirs (code 3) at main.c(877) [receiver=3.0.6] rsync:
> > connection unexpectedly closed (9 bytes received so far) [sender]
> > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
> > io.c(600) [sender=3.0.6]
> >
> > I am still getting these errors.
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net
> > <mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net>> wrote:
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> > First you rm the existing current link then you create a new one
> > pointing at the backup you just made.
> >
> > It really is just a reference to use in the script to determine
> > what the most recent backup is.  The alternative would be to parse
> > a directory listing to determine what the --link-dest parameter
> > should be.
> >
> >
>
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