On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, John David Anderson wrote:
I'd like to set up my FC3 box to be a backup for my home folder on my OS X
machine. I've tried getting rsync to work, but I can't seem to get it to go.
Could someone point me in the right direction or show me how to set this up?
I like rsync because it can work over ssh, and because it will only copy new
changes - if there's a better solution, I'm very open to it.
I've set up quite a few rsync backups ... let me know the details of your
setup and I'll try and give you some advice. Here's what I have on my home
computer at the moment:
#### backup.sh ####
#!/bin/bash
BACKUP_DIRS="home data etc root usr"
BACKUP_COMMAND="rsync --delete -aSuvze ssh"
BACKUP_HOST="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backups/"
BACKUP_EXCLUDE=".opera/cache4/"
for DIR in $BACKUP_DIRS; do
echo $BACKUP_COMMAND --exclude $BACKUP_EXCLUDE /$DIR $BACKUP_HOST
$BACKUP_COMMAND --exclude $BACKUP_EXCLUDE /$DIR $BACKUP_HOST
done;
#### end backup.sh ####
I then stick this in the crontab of the computer I want to be backed up,
and have it email the results to me. Let me know if you have any
questions. Have you get ssh-keys working?
~ Ross
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