trying to backup entire server using rsync
Danny Sauer
rsync at danny.teleologic.net
Thu Feb 24 14:51:40 GMT 2005
On Thursday 24 February 2005 06:35 am, chris allen wrote:
> I am try to backup entire server using rsync. Can someone help me with
> a script. The only thing i don't want include are /prc, /tmp and
> /lost+found
>
> I have root access on both servers i create an account on backup server
> called backup.
rsync -qzaH --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/tmp/* --exclude=/lost+found/*
server:/ /path/to/local/backup
Stick that in /etc/cron.daily/ (or as en entry in whatever crontab is
appropriate). You probably want to run it as root, so the file ownership
and device nodes are preserved.
Either run rsyncd on the server (in which case you'd want to change server:/
to rsync://server/modulename) or add backupserver root's public key to
root's authorized_keys on server - so ssh won't ask for a password when it
runs.
If you want archives, well, that's well covered all over the internet, and
this list's archives. Probably best to search google and find a method
that you like, as it can be done in several ways.
--Danny
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