On 30/07/07, John Pierce <john.j35(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> That was a scary lesson that I learned tonight. I'm burning
a backup
> now, and I'll be learning rsync tonight...
>
This is an rsync command that my wife and I both use on our laptops
everytime we get home to our local network.
/usr/bin/rsync -e ssh -avzp --exclude "/home/eagle1/.ssh" --delete
/home/eagle1 / /ns2.local.net:/prtdata/
This command will be all on one line and it will delete files that do
not exist on the local machine, that is if I delete a file from my
local machine and then do the backup is will be deleted from the
backup server.
Thanks. As I'm setting out to learn rsync, this will help.
I do this as a backup of my live file system, every other night I
run
mondo rescue and alternate through about a two week span on the old
father, grandfather, great grandfather routine of backing up.
Also, the command above was setup to work on a password less ssh
login, but if you have not set that up it will merely ask for the
users password on the server.
Actually, I do have that set up.
I am glad that the partition was just not mounted, but for future
reference, everything I have read about the ext3 files system states
that once deleted you cannot recover a file.
Yes, I've read that as well, for the most part. Some files, such as
jpegs, do have well-defined headers and footers that _can_ be
recovered, but not most other files. I was not sure that fsck had
actually deleted the data. I though maybe it was 'hidden' in some way.
I have to learn to get out of the M$ mentallity...
Dotan Cohen
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