Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 12:21:40PM -0500, Randy Westlund wrote:
> I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my
> workspace, and random user files under my home directory across
> multiple machines.  I'm using one server as the master copy, which
> makes daily incremental backups of my files to a separate disk with
> rsync.  At the moment, I have my sync script set up as a Makefile with
> the following targets.  I run this from multiple workstations.
> 
> It would be nice to use something as easy as svn, but many of my files
> are binary.  Or something like dropbox would be great.  I don't work
> from windows, so I don't need a cross-platform solution.
> 
> What utilities do you guys use?  Is there a better way to do this?  It
> would be nice to move everything to the background, but I've already
> clobbered a few files by calling this in the wrong order and might
> move the Makefile to an interactive script to protect against that.  I
> have to call 'make clobber' after I remove a local file to push that
> change to the server, and if I forgot to call 'make get' first, I have
> to fix it manually.
> 
> -------sync makefile--------
> get:
>         rsync -azOuvihh --progress -e ssh $(EXCLUDE) \
>         --delete \
>         $(HOST):$(SERVER_DIR) $(LOCAL_DIR)
> 
> put:
>         rsync -azOuvihh --progress -e ssh $(EXCLUDE) \
>         $(LOCAL_DIR) $(HOST):$(SERVER_DIR)
> 
> clobber:
>         rsync -azOuvihh --progress -e ssh $(EXCLUDE) \
>         --delete \
>         $(LOCAL_DIR) $(HOST):$(SERVER_DIR)
> ------end-------
> 
> -------backup script--------
> # if files are already there, hard link
> # the last lines mark it as complete and move a soft link pointer
> rsync -zavi --progress --delete \
>   --link-dest=$BACKUP_PATH/current \
>   $SOURCE $BACKUP_PATH/backup_part_$DATE \
>   && mv $BACKUP_PATH/backup_part_$DATE $BACKUP_PATH/backup_$DATE \
>   && unlink $BACKUP_PATH/current \
>   && ln -s $BACKUP_PATH/backup_$DATE $BACKUP_PATH/current
> -------end---------
> 
> Randy

What about Network File System (NFS)? Our little wiki has an article:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NFSv4 -- haven't read it yet, though.
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