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Mark -<br>
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Thanks! That did it.<br>
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<pre wrap="">/usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/</pre>
My next step will be to brush the dust off of my Perl book and write a
crontab script to backup nightly.<br>
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Question: I may not be using the term "backup" absolutely correctly.
The destination server is a "standby" server. This is if the source
server fails, all I have to do is change the router to point to the
standby server. These are in a home office and I do not consider
myself a system administrator; just someone who knows enough to keep
the server running (it's main task is FTPing). Do you have any
suggestions about using rsync as I am doing?<br>
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Todd<br>
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Mark Schoonover wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I use the following command to sync the home directory on the two
computers, however I would like not to send the "dot" files e.g.
".ssh". Can that be done, and if so, how would I construct the
command line?
/usr/bin/rsync -av -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/
Many thanks....
Todd
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Todd,
I'm pretty sure you need to --exclude '.*' on the command line, buh
I usually put all my excludes in a file and --exclude-from=rsync.excludes.
Thanks!
Mark Schoonover
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