Thread: *really* backing up an n800?
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dogsbody is offline dogsbody
2008-03-06 , 21:14
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#17
Originally Posted by mrklaw View Post
I'd love to see some sample scripts to accomplish this. I want to implement a similar backup system using rsync.
The cleaver stuff is really just one very long rsync command, e.g.
Code:
/usr/bin/rsync --bwlimit=512 -az --log-format=%f --numeric-ids --delete --rsh=ssh --stats --exclude-from=/backup/scripts/libs/host.example.com.exclude --link-dest=/backup/backups/host.example.com/2008-03-05-01 host.example.com:/ /backup/backups/host.example.com/2008-03-06-01
I actually blogged about it a while back if your interested (I really must finish building my website! )

All the scripting is just the checking that commands executed correctly and building up the above command.

I hope that helps.
 

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