On 7 Jan 2010, at 11:25, Chris G wrote:
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 08:39:58PM +0000, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Chris G wrote:
I'm after backup rather than synchronisation so Unison doesn't really offer what I want. What I'm actually doing is to rsync files to the backup system
Sorry - don't mean to be thick here, but surely your first step is to ensure that your main machine and the backup machine are synchronised, which is (AFAIK) what both Unison and rsync do. If you're not synchronising the two machines, then surely you'd be using copy (cp) not rsync?
I'm not synchronising, no changes on the backup machine will ever get back to the client machine.
Perhaps this is just a language/communication issue.
rsync can be used to synchronise one folder TO the other i.e. make the target folder the same as the current, in an efficient manner (very much like patch)