rsync cron

[Asheville Joe]

Here's the script I am running now.  It is saved in the /etc/cron.daily 
directory (so cron runs it for me every day without my doing anything 
else) and owned by root.  I'm adding more comments here in the form of 
lines starting with // .  They should all be stripped out if you copy 
this for your use.

The main thing to note is that since this version is run by cron in the 
background, it doesn't echo anything to the console.
If you make a version for youself or write your own,  it would be a good 
idea to run it first with -n and -vv.  That will show you all the files 
it is copying.

The onl;y problem I have now is that rsync tells me it looked at about 
1500 more files than it copied, but I don't know which ones.  Probably a 
bunch of them are the . and .. entries in each directory.

Hope this helps.

Joe

#!/bin/bash
# Dailyback1 - (C) 09/24/03 - JPmicrosystems - GNU GPL applies
# Backup /home to big portable drive using rsync

#This version is for cron to run in background

name="dailyback1"
// I created a directory called maint under /var/log to hold any logs 
from system maintenance tasks I create
//I keep a short log of what this script did so when I need to restore 
something, I'll know at a glance what the situation is.
echo "`date` - $name: Started backup /home" >> /var/log/maint/backup.log
// My second drive is a removeable drive and it is not set (in 
/etc/fstab) to automount
# First, make sure the portable drive is mounted
df | grep 'hdb1' > /tmp/backuptmp
if [ ! -s /tmp/backuptmp ]
then
  mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/portable
  status=$?
  if [ $status != 0 ]
  then
    echo "`date` - $name: Couldn't mount hdb1 = status was $status" >> 
/var/log/maint/backup.log
    exit $status
  fi
fi

// This does the actual backup.  -z, -P, and --no-whole-file probably 
aren't necessary.  --delete helps with the extremely annoying problem of 
having
// stuff you've deleted come back when you restore from a backup.  
--stats gioves me something to look at in my log so I know the backup 
actually did
// something.
echo "Backup of /home  - `date`" > /mnt/portable/rsync.log
/usr/bin/rsync -a -H -z -P --delete --no-whole-file --stats /home 
/mnt/portable/homersync >> /mnt/portable/rsync.log
status=$?
echo "Backup Ended /home - `date`" >> /mnt/portable/rsync.log

if [ $status -gt 0 ]
then
  echo "`date` - $name: Backup of /home FAILED with status $status" >> 
/var/log/maint/backup.log
  exit $status
fi

// make sure I don't get a huge log entry (even if I add a -vv parameter 
later, etc)
tail -20 /mnt/portable/rsync.log >> /var/log/maint/backup.log
echo "`date` - $name: Finished backup /home" >> /var/log/maint/backup.log
exit $status



JB wrote:

>I found this on the web along with tons of other info
>about rsync.
>http://networking.earthweb.com/netos/article.php/10951_1573881_1
>It indicates the command I would need to rsync is
>$ rsync -a sourcedir destinationdir
>I want to rsync
>hda1 /home to a spare partition on hdb2 /jeb
>The problem is everything I have tried comes up with
>an error and I didn't even get to the cron part yet. I
>would like to have it run at 3 am daily and also
>delete files that were deleted on hda1 /home during
>the day. It says to use the delete command with
>caution, do a dry run first. If anyone has a
>recommendation, other ways, or can point me in the
>right direction, I'm all ears...
>Thanks in advance,
>
>  
>

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