<div dir="ltr"><div>I use rsync a lot, both for backing up to external drives and keeping files in sync across machines. I use BTsync between my computer and phone and tablet, and I think I prefer the more discreet rsync command overall, although I can see BTsync working for others. Git is another method I've seen in use: it's not common, but it does have some significant advantages (history, easy recovery from accidental deletes). Choice depends on personal preference. If I were starting over and felt more comfortable with git, I'd go with that - it's probably the most robust.<br>
<br></div>As for the rsync command itself: I think you'll want <username>@aa1:/home/waltdnes/ . I've never used the excludes in any form, never had much luck with them (possibly just me). I've always strongly preferred the --long-form commands to the -l short ones - particularly if you save the command in a script. The letters are much more compact ... and totally unreadable. But the command you want to make yourself familiar with is --dry-run which shows you what it would do if this were a real run ... without actually doing it. Very, very useful for testing.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 May 2014 15:39, Mauro Souza <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thoriumbr@gmail.com" target="_blank">thoriumbr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">I now use BT-Sync to keep my data, well, in sync... It works surprisingly well, setup is a breeze. It have arm and x86 versions, runs on my Android, my RasPi, my Dell notebook and on my cloud server. Haven't any issues with it yet.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-05-07 16:32 GMT-03:00 Marcelo Cavalcante <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kalibslack-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">kalibslack-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span>:<div><div class="h5"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hello Walter,<br>
<br>
I do use rsync to make a backup of my home in the cloud (a server on the cloud).<br>
<br>
That´s what I´m using:<br>
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#!/bin/bash<br>
rsync -Cravzp --progress ./ --exclude=".*/" --exclude="Videos/Filmes/"<br>
--exclude="Virtual*/" --exclude="isos/"<br>
myuser@myserver:/home/myuser/mydir/backups/<br>
<br>
As you can see, |´m using a simple rsync, excluding only what I don´t<br>
want to be send.<br>
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2014-05-07 16:27 GMT-03:00 Walter Dnes <<a href="mailto:waltdnes@waltdnes.org" target="_blank">waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org</a>>:<br>
<div><div>> The goal is to copy most of my home directory to another machine. In<br>
> this case machine "aa1" (Acer Aspire One) over ssh. Is the following<br>
> format correct?<br>
><br>
> #!/bin/bash<br>
> cd /home/waltdnes/<br>
> rm /home/waltdnes/rsync_log.txt /home/waltdnes/rserrors*.txt<br>
> rsync --archive --links --group --itemize-changes --owner \<br>
> --perms --progress --recursive --size-only --stats --verbose \<br>
> --exclude-from=/home/waltdnes/.rsexclude \<br>
> --log-file=/home/waltdnes/rsync_log.txt \<br>
> /home/waltdnes/ aa1:/home/waltdnes/ 2>/root/rserrors1.txt<br>
><br>
> .rsexclude would have entries like...<br>
> /home/waltdnes/camera<br>
><br>
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