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On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 12:21:40PM -0500, 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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What about Network File System (NFS)? Our little wiki has an article: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NFSv4 -- haven't read it yet, though. |
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