rsync...ing feeling

Mr Green · 2006-12-21 08:05:55

I am going to try out rsync to make backups

trying out

rsync -rtlv /etc/ /backup/

which works ok .. so now I want to backup to external drive [just change path!]

not looked but can I rsync a directory list ie /etc/ /var/ /home/user/ etc.?

Have read you have to use trailing '/' on directory names but no idea why?

must remember to backup media too ;-)

Purch · 2006-12-21 08:18:07

I recommend rsnapshot script for local backup to another disk.

Mr Green · 2006-12-21 11:36:47

emmm interesting thanks ....

chrismortimore · 2006-12-21 11:42:01

I do it this way:

RSYNCOPTS="--archive --delete --links --progress --stats --verbose"
rsync ${RSYNCOPTS} --exclude /dev --exclude /mnt --exclude /proc --exclude /sys --exclude /tmp --exclude /var/tmp --exclude *lost+found / /mnt/backup/system/marbles/

But I'm one of those crazy people that backup too much

dninja · 2006-12-21 11:59:37

I've recently got all that working but I now have a problem where I have a 60gb music collection on both my external drive and on my harddrive but because of the way I got the files onto both disks the timestamps are not going to be the same between both disks.

When I try a normal rsync, using options similar to the ones chrismortimore just gave, because the timestamps are out it wants to sync most of the files. I know that the files are identical so I don't want this to happen. I could tell it to ignore timestamps but I think that leaves me with using checksum to work out the difference which takes AGES on 60gb. Is there an easy way to get the timestamps into sync so that from that point on I can just run a normal rsync and only have changes backed up?

I was thinking of running a find and touch on all fines but was seeing as we have an rsync expert on hand wondered if there was a better way to do this with rsync.

Mr Green · 2006-12-21 12:20:38

chrismortimore wrote:

I do it this way:

RSYNCOPTS="--archive --delete --links --progress --stats --verbose"
rsync ${RSYNCOPTS} --exclude /dev --exclude /mnt --exclude /proc --exclude /sys --exclude /tmp --exclude /var/tmp --exclude *lost+found / /mnt/backup/system/marbles/

But I'm one of those crazy people that backup too much

was thinking of reinstalling Arch in new year ... maybe a full backup is in order

got 1016 packages ouch!

woah!

Snarkout · 2006-12-24 18:08:27

I really recommend the rsync man page - it is very well written and very thorough with excellent examples. It's my second favorite man page next to mplayer's man page (is it weird to have favorite man pages?).

Bottom line, anything you need to know is in there, and is easy to find.

Mr Green · 2006-12-24 18:20:17

thanks for that .... I just need to wrap it in a script

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