Backups with rSync

Saturday, July 17th, 2010 397 views

RSync is a useful tool.  It facilitates directory replication across servers.   It will compare a source directory and a target directory and ‘sync’ them up.   It is implemented to run quickly and to use minimal bandwidth. The syntax goes something like this: EXCLUDE=” –exclude *.tmp \ –exclude *.temp” rsync –archive -vv –rsh=ssh $EXCLUDE [...]