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

[Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>]

Here is a good example on using "rsync" 
http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html

I've modified the first one for 7-days incremental backup.

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Joseph

On 12/02/12 12:21, 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