[Help] Centos sync folder

[soulofangel]

I mounted a window shared drive in my centos (/mnt/win)

i have a folder in my centos "/backup"

I am looking for something like rsync with cron to copy the files in "/backup" to "/mnt/win"


Is this the correct way to do it or are there any better alternative?


Thanks

 

[davidktw]

I mounted a window shared drive in my centos (/mnt/win)

i have a folder in my centos "/backup"

I am looking for something like rsync with cron to copy the files in "/backup" to "/mnt/win"


Is this the correct way to do it or are there any better alternative?


Thanks

Would you want a periodic full backup ? If so, perhaps you don't need a rsync. Just a simple tar command will do

tar -czf /mnt/win/backup-`date +'%F'`.tar.gz /backup

You can always rsync from /backup/ to /mnt/win/ but the problem is it will not preserve the unix filesystem metadata such as the ACL

 

[soulofangel]

I already tar monday to sunday.tar.gz of daily full backup (each day is around 2+gb size)
I do not want to keep tarring 10+gb of data everytime i do a backup.
The data increase daily is around 100mb only.

 

[huffie]

I already tar monday to sunday.tar.gz of daily full backup (each day is around 2+gb size)
I do not want to keep tarring 10+gb of data everytime i do a backup.
The data increase daily is around 100mb only.

If it's for the purpose of backup.. try take a look at BackupPC?
BackupPC: Open Source Backup to disk

 

[davidktw]

I already tar monday to sunday.tar.gz of daily full backup (each day is around 2+gb size)
I do not want to keep tarring 10+gb of data everytime i do a backup.
The data increase daily is around 100mb only.

GNU tar 1.28: 5.2 Using tar to Perform Incremental Dumps

tar -g /var/run/backup.statefile -cvf /mnt/win/backup-full-`date +'%F'`.tar.gz /backup

tar -g /var/run/backup.statefile -cvf /mnt/win/backup-incr-`date +'%F'`.tar.gz /backup

 

[soulofangel]

If it's for the purpose of backup.. try take a look at BackupPC?
BackupPC: Open Source Backup to disk

Thanks, but i am looking for a more light weight script.

GNU tar 1.28: 5.2 Using tar to Perform Incremental Dumps

tar -g /var/run/backup.statefile -cvf /mnt/win/backup-full-`date +'%F'`.tar.gz /backup

tar -g /var/run/backup.statefile -cvf /mnt/win/backup-incr-`date +'%F'`.tar.gz /backup

I think this is what i am looking for. So its call incremental backup. Thanks