Recommended rsync tutorials?

[Tom Buskey]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Bruce Labitt
<bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net>wrote:

>  I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some
> 'backup'.  I've read man rsync and a few 'tutorials'.  It
> looks not too hard - this worries me.  :)
>
> Anyone have a good/favorite tutorial on rsync that talks
> about how to do this over ssh and avoids common pitfalls?
> (like unmounted nfs...) lmgtfy, would not be too helpful.
> Done that, checked out a few of them, looking for something
> relatively understandable...
>
> -Bruce
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Try it manually 1st.  Put it into a script that you call in cron.

You can setup ssh keys so you don't have passwords.

Usually it's rsync -av source dest:dest-dir

If you delete files on the source and want them deleted on the dest, use
--delete
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