Comments on: An rsync primer http://www.thelinuxblog.com/an-rsync-primer/ The Linux Blog, General Linux, Shell Scripts Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:46:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: TheLinuxBlog.com http://www.thelinuxblog.com/an-rsync-primer/comment-page-1/#comment-1767 TheLinuxBlog.com Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:14:03 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/an-rsync-primer/#comment-1767 Thanks for the linux @Binny V A, Seems like that perl script just loops over each directory and sends it to the backup server using rsync over SSH as the transport method. This can also be achieved using rsync options and ignore lists. Or by using the rsync -avz host:file1 :file2 host:file{3,4} /dest/ options as defined in the rsync man page, but it depends on your application. - Owen. Thanks for the linux @Binny V A, Seems like that perl script just loops over each directory and sends it to the backup server using rsync over SSH as the transport method. This can also be achieved using rsync options and ignore lists. Or by using the rsync -avz host:file1 :file2 host:file{3,4} /dest/ options as defined in the rsync man page, but it depends on your application.

- Owen.

]]> By: Binny V A http://www.thelinuxblog.com/an-rsync-primer/comment-page-1/#comment-1766 Binny V A Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:56:12 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/an-rsync-primer/#comment-1766 Rsync is very good if you want a simple backup solution. I have a small tutorial on <a href="http://lindesk.com/2008/06/script-to-backup-files-over-a-network-using-rsync/" rel="nofollow">backuping using rsync</a> Rsync is very good if you want a simple backup solution. I have a small tutorial on backuping using rsync

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