On Friday 12 March 2004 05:37 pm, Roger Beever wrote: > Hi. > I have been reading the rsync man pages but am not sure what is the > right commands to do what I require. > I just want to back put the home directory and sub directories from one > machine to another. I use rsync to basically make a copy / mirror of /home directory from one machine to another. This should do it: rsync -avzu -e ssh user@xxxxx:/home /backup_dir/ If you run that from a1.net, for the first time run, this will copy the home directory of a.net to /backup_dir/ in a1.net. Subsequent run will only copy the new files, or updated files in a.net /home directory. That's the beauty of rsync. Make sure 'user' has permission to read /home, so you may want it to login as root. You can also set that as a cron job, but you may need to use SSH key so that you don't need to login, here's how (there are many other similar HOWTO): http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-list&m=105060028415011&w=2 Right now I'm taking a look at mondo (mondorescue.org), planning todo it tomorrow. It seems to be a good solution for regular backup. Hope that helps. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN --------------------------------------------------------- "To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." - Linus Torvalds - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
