Todd Cary wrote:
Mark -
Thanks! That did it.
/usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/ My next step will be to brush the dust off of my Perl book and write a crontab script to backup nightly.
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?
I'm confused *what* in the world would make you want to write perl for this purpose when two lines of bash would serve the purpose (admirably).
#!/bin/bash /usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/
If for some reason, you wanted to do something sexier or more dynamic in terms of the source/destination, that would add 4 more lines to make it something like:
#!/bin/bash for dir in 'ls -1 /home/' do /usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/$dir/ 192.168.0.22:/home/$dir/ done
You can even nest loops and iterate multiple parameters.
Peter