>
> > i'm using a simple procedure i cooked up to maintain a "third copy" at a
> > third physical location using as little bandwidth as possible. it simply
> > looks at each pc/*/backups, selects the most recent full and most recent
> > incremental (plus any partial or /new), and copies them across the wire,
> > together with the most recently copied full&incremental set
> > [...]
> > that's already there (and not bothering with the cpool), which, for me,
> is
> > a happily sized set of hardlinks that rsync can actually manage (ymmv).
> > [...] if it's of interest i could share it.
>
> I think this fills a useful use case, so yeah I would say send it to
> the mailing list.
>
#currently running as "pull", tho can run as "push" with minor mods:
#(root bash)
rbh=remote.backuppc.host
b=/var/lib/BackupPC/pc
cd /local/third/copy
sb='sudo -ubackuppc'
ssp="$sb ssh -p2222" #nonstandard ssh port
ssb="$ssp $rbh cd $b"
from_to=("$rbh:$b/*" .)
fob=$ssb
df=($(df -m .))
prun= #prun=--delete-excluded to prune
local/third/copy down to most recent backups only
echo df=${df[10]} prun=$prun #show current filespace and prun setting
[ ! -s iMRFIN ]&&{ touch iMRFIN ||exit
$?;} #most recent finished set
[ ! -s iMRUNF ]&&{ touch iLRUNF ||exit $?;}||{ cat iMRUNF>>iLRUNF||exit
$?;} #most recent and less recent unfinished sets
$fob 'echo " --include=*/new"
#any unfinished backups
for m in */backups;do unset f i
#look at all pc/*/backups files
while read -r r;do r=($r)
[[ ${r[1]} = full ]]&&fu[f++]=$r
[[ ${r[1]} = incr ]]&&in[i++]=$r
[[ ${r[1]} = partial ]]&&echo " --include=${m%backups}$r"
#any incomplete backups
done < $m
[[ $f -gt 0 ]]&&echo " --include=${m%backups}${fu[f-1]}"
#most recent full
[[ $i -gt 0 ]]&&echo " --include=${m%backups}${in[i-1]}"
#most recent incremental
done'>| iMRUNF ||echo badexit;head -99 i*
#show backup sets included for transfer
rc=255;while [[ $rc = 255 ]];do date
#reconnect if 255(connection dropped)
#note some special custom excludes are on a separate line
rsync -qPHSae"$ssp" --rsync-path="sudo rsync" $(cat iMRFIN iLRUNF
iMRUNF) $prun --exclude="/*/*/" \
--exclude=fNAVupdate --exclude=fDownloads --exclude=\*Personal
--exclude="*COPY of C*" \
"${from_to[@]}"
rc=$?;echo rc=$rc;if [ $rc = 0 ];then mv iMRUNF iMRFIN;rm
iLRUNF;fi;done;df -m .
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