Re: : Remote rsync question

I use rsync a lot, both for backing up to external drives and keeping files
in sync across machines.  I use BTsync between my computer and phone and
tablet, and I think I prefer the more discreet rsync command overall,
although I can see BTsync working for others.  Git is another method I've
seen in use: it's not common, but it does have some significant advantages
(history, easy recovery from accidental deletes).  Choice depends on
personal preference.  If I were starting over and felt more comfortable
with git, I'd go with that - it's probably the most robust.

As for the rsync command itself: I think you'll want
<username>@aa1:/home/waltdnes/ .  I've never used the excludes in any form,
never had much luck with them (possibly just me).  I've always strongly
preferred the --long-form commands to the -l short ones - particularly if
you save the command in a script.  The letters are much more compact ...
and totally unreadable.  But the command you want to make yourself familiar
with is --dry-run which shows you what it would do if this were a real run
... without actually doing it.  Very, very useful for testing.


On 7 May 2014 15:39, Mauro Souza <[email protected]> wrote:

> I now use BT-Sync to keep my data, well, in sync... It works surprisingly
> well, setup is a breeze. It have arm and x86 versions, runs on my Android,
> my RasPi, my Dell notebook and on my cloud server. Haven't any issues with
> it yet.
>
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> 2014-05-07 16:32 GMT-03:00 Marcelo Cavalcante <[email protected]>:
>
> Hello Walter,
>>
>> I do use rsync to make a backup of my home in the cloud (a server on the
>> cloud).
>>
>> That´s what I´m using:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> rsync -Cravzp --progress ./ --exclude=".*/" --exclude="Videos/Filmes/"
>> --exclude="Virtual*/" --exclude="isos/"
>> myuser@myserver:/home/myuser/mydir/backups/
>>
>> As you can see, |´m using a simple rsync, excluding only what I don´t
>> want to be send.
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>> 2014-05-07 16:27 GMT-03:00 Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/[email protected]>:
>> >   The goal is to copy most of my home directory to another machine.  In
>> > this case machine "aa1" (Acer Aspire One) over ssh.  Is the following
>> > format correct?
>> >
>> > #!/bin/bash
>> > cd /home/waltdnes/
>> > rm /home/waltdnes/rsync_log.txt /home/waltdnes/rserrors*.txt
>> > rsync --archive --links --group --itemize-changes --owner \
>> >       --perms --progress --recursive --size-only --stats --verbose \
>> >       --exclude-from=/home/waltdnes/.rsexclude \
>> >       --log-file=/home/waltdnes/rsync_log.txt \
>> >       /home/waltdnes/ aa1:/home/waltdnes/ 2>/root/rserrors1.txt
>> >
>> > .rsexclude would have entries like...
>> > /home/waltdnes/camera
>> >
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