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Here is a good example on using "rsync" |
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http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html |
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I've modified the first one for 7-days incremental backup. |
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Joseph |
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On 12/02/12 12:21, Randy Westlund wrote: |
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>I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my |
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>workspace, and random user files under my home directory across |
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>multiple machines. I'm using one server as the master copy, which |
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>makes daily incremental backups of my files to a separate disk with |
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>rsync. At the moment, I have my sync script set up as a Makefile with |
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>the following targets. I run this from multiple workstations. |
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> |
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>It would be nice to use something as easy as svn, but many of my files |
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>are binary. Or something like dropbox would be great. I don't work |
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>from windows, so I don't need a cross-platform solution. |
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> |
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>What utilities do you guys use? Is there a better way to do this? It |
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>would be nice to move everything to the background, but I've already |
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>clobbered a few files by calling this in the wrong order and might |
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>move the Makefile to an interactive script to protect against that. I |
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>have to call 'make clobber' after I remove a local file to push that |
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>change to the server, and if I forgot to call 'make get' first, I have |
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>to fix it manually. |
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> |
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>-------sync makefile-------- |
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>get: |
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> rsync -azOuvihh --progress -e ssh $(EXCLUDE) \ |
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> --delete \ |
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> $(HOST):$(SERVER_DIR) $(LOCAL_DIR) |
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> |
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>put: |
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> rsync -azOuvihh --progress -e ssh $(EXCLUDE) \ |
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> $(LOCAL_DIR) $(HOST):$(SERVER_DIR) |
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> |
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>clobber: |
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> rsync -azOuvihh --progress -e ssh $(EXCLUDE) \ |
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> --delete \ |
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> $(LOCAL_DIR) $(HOST):$(SERVER_DIR) |
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>------end------- |
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> |
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>-------backup script-------- |
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># if files are already there, hard link |
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># the last lines mark it as complete and move a soft link pointer |
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>rsync -zavi --progress --delete \ |
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> --link-dest=$BACKUP_PATH/current \ |
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> $SOURCE $BACKUP_PATH/backup_part_$DATE \ |
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> && mv $BACKUP_PATH/backup_part_$DATE $BACKUP_PATH/backup_$DATE \ |
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> && unlink $BACKUP_PATH/current \ |
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> && ln -s $BACKUP_PATH/backup_$DATE $BACKUP_PATH/current |
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>-------end--------- |
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> |
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>Randy |
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