Rsync
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- some options
- -x one filesystem
- -X xattr
- -z compress
- -H preserve hard links
- -c checksum
- --delete remove deleted files from destination
- --delete-excluded
- sync a directory, deleting deleted files from destination
rsync --progress --delete -avP srv::home /mnt/mirror/home/
#!/bin/sh date=`date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H_%M_%S"` HOME=/home/user/ rsync -azP \ --delete \ --delete-excluded \ --exclude-from=$HOME/.rsync/exclude \ --link-dest=../current \ $HOME user@backupserver:Backups/incomplete_back-$date \ && ssh user@backupserver \ "mv Backups/incomplete_back-$date Backups/back-$date \ && rm -f Backups/current \ && ln -s back-$date Backups/current"