scp and symlinks

[Matthew Carpenter]

Bruce Marshall wrote:

>On Saturday 20 November 2004 10:11 am, Dr. Jones wrote:
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>>Jorge Almeida wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:
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>>>>A workaround is to use rsync:
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>>>>rsync -r -e ssh path user at host:/path
>>>>rsync -r -e ssh user at host:/path path
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>>>>-r tells rsync to recurse into directovies. -e ssh specifies the remote
>>>>shell (ssh in this case) for rsync to use.
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>>>It works great (I added the -l flag).
>>>Thank you.
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>>Just curious how rsync compares with using scp? I routinely invoke scp
>>on my linux box at home to transfer files from work, instead of having
>>to find the right zip disk, a la :
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>>scp scott at my.ip.numberat.work:/usr/archive/blah/blah/blah/*
>>/home/scott/archive
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>>It seems to work pretty well, and I always have a backup of my data
>>files. What interests me about rsync is the "sync" part of the name. I
>>would like to set up a better backup and/or transfer routine that will
>>just grab all the files newly created or changed on my work machine. Is
>>there a way to run either rsync or scp on a batch file, to have it just
>>grab the files new or altered on a given day, or even better, just the
>>changed portions instead of downloading the entire files?
>>
>>Scott
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>I run rsync on a nightly basis to backup /home/  and some other partitions.
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>rsync -auvzr -e ssh --delete /home/   <othernamchine>:/home2/
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>Works fine for me but others may want to use different options on the command.  
>The above command is in a crontab.
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I also use it daily although I use the options :
rsync -azve ssh /home/me/shared/ me at backupserver:/home/me/shared/

   I've played around with the -A parameter as well as I use ACL's a 
lot, and I believe it works great so long as the FS's support it and are 
mounted using the "acl" parameter.