One thing I might point out though is that you (Betty) said you did the
backup about once a month and your example shows rsyncing to a directory
named for the month (October). That's fine but some people use rsync to
update a single backup destination so they don't keep each backup
separately. You choice which best suits you, but I thought it worth
mentioning.
Larry
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Steve Holmes <
steve@holmesgrown.com> wrote:
> Yes, I commend you for going for the command line tools like that.
> Tackling rsync is no slouch by any means. Frankly, I can rarely
> remember all the command line options for rsync and have to either
> constantly look at the man page or previous working examples. I would
> also create little one or two line shell scripts with these commands
> in them and then just run the script each month or whenever. That's
> why Joseph's script example had the '$1' and '$2' thingies in there.
> those can then be substituted by just putting in the names of the
> paths and run the script. Also, I believe Joseph's example included
> the --delete option. However, I don't recall what is actually being
> deleted at that point. Might wanna check to be sure there.
>
> Also, if you get more adventuresome in the future, you might wanna
> look at a program called rdiff-backup. It uses rsync under the hood
> and allows for optional inclusions and exclusions like rsync does but
> allows for staging different backup sets over time and yes, each
> subsequent backup is just the differences. Plus then if you need to
> restore a file from the most recent backup, it is merely a mirror of
> your current environment so you can just copy the desired item to be
> restored. But rsync is a good start and an excellent way to sync up
> two computers over a network too.
>
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:18:01PM -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> > Do not think yourself stupid! I know software developers who are
> > afraid of anything on a command line. The fact that you are using
> > rsync is a long ways from anything close to stupid!
> >
> > Excellent work.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM, betty <nicepenguin@webcanine.com>
> wrote:
> > > ok, great, so do i just do this;
> > >
> > > stormy@stormy-desktop:~$ rsync -avEHh /home/stormy/ /media/october
> > >
> > > or do i do this :
> > > stormy@stormy-desktop:~$ rsync -avEHh --delete-after --progress
> > > /home/stormy/ /media/october
> > >
> > > sorry to be so stupid, but i rely on you guys for this ;)
> > > thank you!!
> > > betty
> > >
> > >
> > > On 12/08/2010 08:32 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> > >>
> > >> You're pretty close to ideal there.
> > >> I use
> > >> rsync -avEHh --delete-after --progress $SOURCE $DESTINATION
> > >> Generally no need to sudo for your own homedir, and "-z" is really
> only
> > >> useful for network copying (it compresses in-transit, not on disk).
> > >>
> > >> That will only copy over changes between the source and destination,
> and
> > >> will remove anything in destination that's no longer in source.
> > >>
> > >> Make sure the external drive is formatted EXT3 or XFS so you can
> preserve
> > >> things like access controls and ownership.
> > >>
> > >> When you look at the final output of the command, there's usually a
> ratio
> > >> listed.
> > >> That's the amount that could be copied vs. the amount actually copied.
> If
> > >> that's much larger than 1, then you're only copying changes.
> > >>
> > >> ==Joseph++
> > >>
> > >> betty wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> I have an ext hdd that i copy my stuff to every few months. I think
> that
> > >>> i am copying everything all over again each time.
> > >>> What I'd like to do is just copy files that have changed.
> > >>> This is the command i have been using
> > >>>
> > >>> stormy@stormy-desktop:~$ sudo rsync -azvH /home/stormy/
> /media/october
> > >>>
> > >>> please don't suggest that i use dd or whatever else there is because
> i
> > >>> am not good at trying new things. i think i'm doing a lot just to do
> the
> > >>> backup every few months.
> > >>>
> > >>> any rsync suggestions greatly appreciated. if i am already using the
> > >>> correct command for just copying things that have changed, please let
> me
> > >>> know.
> > >>>
> > >>> THANKS, Merry Christmas to all pluggers !
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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