Mark Schoonover wrote:
Todd Cary wrote:
Mark -
Thanks! That did it.
/usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/
My next step will be to brush the dust off of my Perl book and write
a crontab script to backup nightly.
Question: I may not be using the term "backup" absolutely correctly.
The destination server is a "standby" server. This is if the source
server fails, all I have to do is change the router to point to the
standby server. These are in a home office and I do not consider
myself a system administrator; just someone who knows enough to keep
the server running (it's main task is FTPing). Do you have any
suggestions about using rsync as I am doing?
Todd,
If all you want to do is mirror the main server to the backup
server, your command is almost correct. You'll want to add --delete on the
commandline. This will cause rsync to remove any files from the destination
before sending them from the source. This will create a mirror of your main
server to your backup server.
You don't need to go to all the overhead of running Perl to crontab
this up. Just drop your rsync command into a file, make it executable then
add it to root's crontab file. It'll run just fine after that.
One other thing nonrsync related - top posting, and sending HTML to
the list. Makes it hard to respond to your questions. Just remember to use
text only, and post responses at the bottom of your emails. Things just
tread much easier from top to bottom.
Thanks!
Mark Schoonover
IS Manager
American Geotechnical - California, Nevada and Arizona
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Mark -
Yes, the bottom post vs. the top post is a continual problem for me
since my business accounts ask for top post (almost demand it) and
Thunderbird does not have an option for each email address as it does
for email mode. I'll try to remember to swap it back and forth.
Concerning the --delete switch, if I use it, will files created by a
user on the destination server remain? Though it is a standby server,
there are times when it is used by staff.
The main reason I will use Perl is to create the backup files of the
Interbase databases and then scp (or rsync) them to the other server.
Many thanks for the tips....
Todd
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