On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 12:21:40PM -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: > I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my > workspace, and random user files under my home directory across > multiple machines. I'm using one server as the master copy, which > makes daily incremental backups of my files to a separate disk with > rsync. At the moment, I have my sync script set up as a Makefile with > the following targets. I run this from multiple workstations. > > It would be nice to use something as easy as svn, but many of my files > are binary. Or something like dropbox would be great. I don't work > from windows, so I don't need a cross-platform solution. > > What utilities do you guys use? Is there a better way to do this? It > would be nice to move everything to the background, but I've already > clobbered a few files by calling this in the wrong order and might > move the Makefile to an interactive script to protect against that. I > have to call 'make clobber' after I remove a local file to push that > change to the server, and if I forgot to call 'make get' first, I have > to fix it manually. > > -------sync makefile-------- > get: > rsync -azOuvihh --progress -e ssh $(EXCLUDE) \ > --delete \ > $(HOST):$(SERVER_DIR) $(LOCAL_DIR) > > put: > rsync -azOuvihh --progress -e ssh $(EXCLUDE) \ > $(LOCAL_DIR) $(HOST):$(SERVER_DIR) > > clobber: > rsync -azOuvihh --progress -e ssh $(EXCLUDE) \ > --delete \ > $(LOCAL_DIR) $(HOST):$(SERVER_DIR) > ------end------- > > -------backup script-------- > # if files are already there, hard link > # the last lines mark it as complete and move a soft link pointer > rsync -zavi --progress --delete \ > --link-dest=$BACKUP_PATH/current \ > $SOURCE $BACKUP_PATH/backup_part_$DATE \ > && mv $BACKUP_PATH/backup_part_$DATE $BACKUP_PATH/backup_$DATE \ > && unlink $BACKUP_PATH/current \ > && ln -s $BACKUP_PATH/backup_$DATE $BACKUP_PATH/current > -------end--------- > > Randy
What about Network File System (NFS)? Our little wiki has an article: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NFSv4 -- haven't read it yet, though. -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ [email protected] 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
