Ubuntu :: Rsync Backup Ends In Busy Box?
Jul 30, 2011i am trying to keep a backup of my root on a second partition using rsync.
sda1 system
sda2 system-BAK
sdb1 /home
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Ubuntu :: Using Rsync For Backup?
Mar 2, 2010I saw in a magazine reference to using rsync to have identical copies of folders. This looks like something I could find useful as I have a large number of items in need of safe backup.
I have the folders on an old system on a home network and would like to copy these over to a USB Hard Drive.
Currently the folders reside on SFTP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and I wish to sync them to a USB port on my laptop.
Ubuntu :: Backup Using Rsync
Aug 2, 2010I have a samba share to a windows 7 computer I do not know if I will be able to use backintime or not so I want to know how to have rsync do my backup.I read the man but I'm not sure if I understand the it.on same computer different hard drive to run every hour in a script. Leanne is windows 7 share and backup is the other hard drive in the computer rsync -arvRzEP /media/leanne /media/backup.
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Jun 18, 2010I'm trying to learn how rsync works to backup my system. I tried:
Code:
rsync -azvv /home /media/Elements
I get a folder called home on my external hard drive but when I use ls -l to see the permissions they are all wrong.
On my /home folder the permissions for /nathan are
drwxr-xr-x 48 nathan nathan
The permissions on the backup /nathan folder are
drwx------ 1 nathan nathan
I also tried using the long version of -a which is -rlptgoD and that didn't work either. What do the 48 and 1 mean when I used ls -l? When I look in the /nathan folder the permissions are all screwed up too. A lot of the files are backed up as executable and the permissions are all screwed up. I also ran it with sudo, and that didn't work either. The permissions were still screwed up and ownership is messed up too.
Ubuntu :: Rsync Backup Server
Jul 20, 2010This should be a quick one. I'm trying to backup a single directory and it's subdirectories on my Lucid Server to a freenas box across my network. This is what I'm using to do that rsync -r -a -v -z * --delete freenas: DSIBackups..It almost works perfectly except for one problem. When a file is deleted at the source, this command doesn't seem to delete it on the receiving end. I assumed that the --delete would do that but aparently not.
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Oct 20, 2010when rsync is finished the update, or in the meantime - i need to move the updated files to a different location - like date +%Y%m%d something or what ..the reason is, because of the development, i need the modified files, but all of them, not just the last one - so i have to store them daily, but i dont want to store the whole dir - just that few files which are updated does it make sense?
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Apr 14, 2010I'm hoping somebody can find something here that I haven't. I'm trying to use rsync to backup home directories to a nas. First, I NFS mounted the nas and ran an rsync and everything worked out fine. the transfer completed after a few hours and everyting was transferred (lots of stuff!). I then decided that I don't want to leave the nas mounted all the time and I didn't want to automate mounting and unmounting of the nas as I didn't think I could produce a script that would work reliably enough. So I decided to start an rsync daemon on the nas and upgrade via that. I run the following command (results are included. the ^C is me killing it after it hangs).
Code:
ryan@server:/etc/backup$ sudo rsync -ax --stats --progress --delete /data root@192.168.0.98:backups1
root@192.168.0.98's password:
sending incremental file list
data/home/user/Documents/
data/home/user/Documents/The File.wmv
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Ubuntu :: Backup Files To Ntfs With Rsync?
May 31, 2010well, i know ther are issues when using rsync to copy files to ntfs partition like file permission blah blah. the thing is, i need to backup my music files periodically onto a ntfs partition from ext4. i really dont care about file permissions or any other stuff. when i use rsync, it should update the mp3 files on my ntfs (external) disc with the new ones.can i give a go with this operation? i have lot more important files on the external disc and i dont want this rsync corrupt or delete those files coz they are highly important files.
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Sep 15, 2010I have a Linux host acting as an ISCSI server for a Windows box. I want to keep an off site backup, so I figure rsync will keep the ISCSI server synced with an offsite Linux host. I understand that Rsync does block level incremental transfer to conserve bandwidth ok, awesome.The trick is, that I also want an archival copy kept. Say I want to go back to a revision of a file from 10 days ago, I need to be able to do that.
I was planning on using Backup Exec, since we currently have a licensed copy. Throw the archives from Backup Exec onto the ISCSI server as well, and have it keep a rotating 30 day backup, or something like that. The issue I see here is that this will be creating a deleting files as it does its daily backup rotation. I'm guessing RSYNC will see these as new files, and likely retransmit everything on a daily basis. The question then becomes, is this assumption correct, or will it still know to do a block level incremental transfer even when file names and such are changing?
Ubuntu :: RSYNC Error - Backup Failed
Jan 29, 2011Our backup script was working fine (ssh to the server, back up /home to a second hard drive on my computer). Then right after an ubuntu update, it quit working. I investigated and found that "something" had changed the label on the backup hdd to what looked like gibberish to me. But the script identified the backup hdd by its uuid, which didn't change. Yet, here is the error I get when the backup fails: receiving file list ... done [took about 5 seconds] rsync: mkdir "/media/14D9-3B1F/server-backup" failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(594) [receiver=3.0.6]
Note that the backup hdd IS mounted, uuid is correct, and the folder 'server-backup' DOES exist. Does anyone have a clue for me? I'm moderately experienced in Linux and ubuntu. Our server runs centos 5. And as stated, the backup ran fine for several weeks. I think there was a new linux kernel on that update, but at this point a while later I don't know which one. Current kernel is .2.6.31-22-generic.
Ubuntu Servers :: Any Way To Encrypt Backup Using Rsync
Feb 4, 2011I support a small business which has an Ubuntu server running as a file server. The server is running Ubuntu 10.4. There is one hard drive which is mounted as /media/hdd. Each night this is backed up to an external USB hard drive mounted as /media/backup. The backup is carried out using the command:
Code:
rsync -av /media/hdd/ /media/backup/
Is there a way to encrypt this back-up so that if the USB hard drive is plugged into another machine it cannot be read?
Debian :: Backup Server With Rsync And Ssh
Jan 18, 2016I switched last summer from Windows (used it since Windows 95) to Debian. I'm using Debian Jessie for a couple of months now and I'm getting used a little.
There are problems here and there, but I can solved them with some reading on the web. Not really a big problem...till now
I run Debian 8.2 om my PC (PC1). Bought an older PC (PC2) that I want to use as a backup server.
I'm using PC2 only for making backups, after the backup I switch it off again.
So I installed Debian 8.2 (net-install without DE and with SSH) on PC2 and tried to configure it to let it work as my backup location. Made a public SSH key and exported it to the root account (no problem) and to the user account (sensdeb), but there was an error "Access Denied"
Gave the user (sensdeb) sudo-rights via visudo file
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
sensdeb ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
I installed rsync.
The problem is that Rsync only works when I use the root account.
Code: Select allrsync -r -n -t -v --progress --delete -u -l -H -s /media/Data/Mp3/Anastacia root@192.168.1.102:/test/Mp3
When I try to sync with he normal user account sensdeb
Code: Select allrsync -r -n -t -v --progress --delete -u -l -H -s /media/Data/Mp3/Anastacia sensdeb@192.168.1.102:/test/Mp3
I get error's. Access Denied
I don know how to give the user sensdeb the rights so that I can use that account for my backup tasks. Now it's possible to sync with the root account, but that should not be the way to do it, I read many times.
OpenSUSE :: Rsync Backup : Upgrade To 11.4 64 Bit?
Mar 14, 2011had some 'files disappearing' probs for rsync after upgrade to openSuSE 11.4 - solution seems to be to add :
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General :: How To Do Rsync-like Encrypted Backup
Feb 27, 2011I want to save a backup of my data on a remote server, but never want the backup server to see the data unencrypted. Editing a single file and backing up should not result in everything being encrypted and sent again. The remote server should preferably not even know the directory structure (and especially not the directory names).
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Jul 13, 2010I've been trying to make a three stage backup with stage 0 being a full monthly back up, stage 1 being a weekly backup, and stage 2 being a daily backup. I've been trying very hard to use rsync for this but sorting files by date is proving to be problematic. Sometimes it seems to work from the command line directly, but the same command causes errors and warnings from a script while entirely failing to sort the correct files.
The common example I see for this involves commands like this:
Code:
rsync -Rav `find /home/ -ctime -7 -print` /path/to/home_backup The problem seems to be that since the user directories in /home contain files that have been altered within the time frame specified the whole directory is matched first which means that the whole directory is recursively archived as opposed to just the changed files.
I've also seen examples using the --files-from tag using the same find parameters and this one seems to ALMOST work but gives me strange warnings and fails to run at all when launched from a script.
Many of the things I've googled about using rsync to backup stuff by the date modified involves a rather snarky "You're missing the point of rsync!" to which I respond by yelling at my computer monitor followed by "JUST TELL ME WHAT I NEED TO KNOW!" I understand that rsync is meant to take care of incremental backups on it's own, that's why I want to use it specifically for a traditional 3 stage backup scheme.
Security :: Backup Securely With Rsync?
Jul 11, 2010To copy from production to standby over the internet I use a cron job doing rsync -avze 'ssh -p 8022' --exclude-from= ....
My question is: should the cron job run on the production or the standby system. Root access to the remote system is given by a pass phrase-less ssh key. Currently I run rsync on the production system. I guess that it is more secure because the standby needs no ssh login to production. Running rsync on the standby would use less resources on production. I am concerned that in this case there would be pass phrase-less access from standby to production.
Software :: Restoring An Rsync Backup
Jul 10, 2011I'm doing an rsync backup to an external drive in order to take a shot at setting up partition encryption. My rsync command is, as root: Code: rsync -av / /external1/backup.Once I've finished my cryptsetup and done a fresh Linux install, what command should I use to properly restore my backup (without messing up the encryption setup)?
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Aug 10, 2010I'm going to make a nightly backup copy from one server to another, using rsync. If I have a sufficiently large file, say 4+ GB or so, I'm not interested in copying the whole file if only a small change has been made. Can rsync detect small changes on block level and backup only those if needed?
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Oct 14, 2010I went ahead and created this directory
mkdir /tmp/rsync-backup
and, ran this
rsync av /home /tmp/rsync-backup
this is the result
rsync: link_stat "/av" failed: No such file or directory (2)
skipping directory home
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1060) [sender=3.0.7]
Ubuntu :: Rsync For Initial Backup Then Maintenance Backups?
May 9, 2011So I am using rsync (3.0.7 on MAC OSX) to backup one hard drive to a folder on another one. The is USB drive to USB drive and I have done the initial backup from one drive to a new formatted other drive with the following command:
Code:
rsync -avX --progress /Volumes/Source /Volumes/Destination
This all appears to be going smoothly as I type. I am going to write a script to do subsequent backups in the
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Ubuntu Networking :: Mount Windows PC To Backup Using Rsync
Jul 1, 2011I want to backup windows PC's in my network to my ubuntu 11.04 pc, using rsync. Rsync is working, but I have to mount the pc's. A few details.
My server is named: server
The windows pc is named: \PC_OF_MARTIJN
The folder where the mount is coming is: /home/bastiaan/backup/mounts
Credentials are in /home/bastiaan/backup/credentials and they're called: martijn
So what I'm going to add to /etc/fstab is this:
Code:
//server \PC_OF_USER /home/bastiaan/backup/mounts/user cifs credentials=/home/bastiaan/credentials/user,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
Will this work?
Ubuntu :: Use Rsync & Ssh To Move A Backup Folder Some Computers To A Server?
Mar 13, 2010I am trying to use rsync & ssh to move a backup folder some computers to a server. I found a command that is supposed to do this, but I am having issues getting it to work.
Code:
rsync -avz -e 'ssh -p 'port' 'username'@'hostname' ' /source/path host:/destination/path
Ubuntu Servers :: Rsync Auto Login And Schedule Backup?
Nov 11, 2010I have setup Rsync as a daemon on a Ubuntu 10.04 box and the setup was successful. Here are my configs
Code:
root@hurricane:`# nano /etc/default/rsync
# defaults file for rsync daemon mode
# start rsync in daemon mode from init.d script?
# only allowed values are "true", "false", and "inetd"
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Ubuntu Servers :: Rsync Backup - Transfer Files With Appropriate Permissions
Dec 4, 2010I wrote a script to wake up my windows machine and do an rsync backup of some of my files. I wanted to make this command a accessible through local bin so I made it executable. However the problem is that when I copies files is copies them with root permissions and i can edit or delete them. How can I set the files so they transfer with the proper permissions for my Ubuntu user?
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# Description: This script first wakes up the client machine and syncs the appropriate folders.
# Finally the script shuts down the client if it was off to begin with.
if [ "$(whoami)" != "root" ]; then
echo "Permission Denied"
exit 1
fi .....
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Nov 28, 2010I'd like to backup my whole system to a 2nd disk using rsync (other tools not possible).Which paths should I exclude from the packup?I was thinking about /proc, /dev, the lost+found directories...What other paths am I forgetting?
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I created the initial backup with:
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Mar 4, 2010I'm creating a backup scheme with rsync.
It is pretty clear not to include these:
/var/lib/named/proc
/var/lib/ntp/proc
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Dec 31, 2009I am writing my own anacron script that backs up my most important files from my laptop to my office pc regularly using rsync. However, sometimes my laptop is on when anacron starts the back-up job but my laptop is offline, so that it cannot rsync with my desktop. Is it possible to tell anacron to re-schedule the task to either the next time I'm online again or to some later date (preferably not the next scheduled time, but some time before)?
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