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* Backup the home folder to backup_drive
rsync_tmbackup.sh /home /mnt/backup_drive
rsync_tmbackup.sh /home /mnt/backup_drive
* Backup with exclusion list:
rsync_tmbackup.sh /home /mnt/backup_drive excluded_patterns.txt
rsync_tmbackup.sh /home /mnt/backup_drive excluded_patterns.txt
* Backup to remote drive over SSH, on port 2222:
rsync_tmbackup.sh -p 2222 /home user@example.com:/mnt/backup_drive
rsync_tmbackup.sh -p 2222 /home user@example.com:/mnt/backup_drive
* To mimic Time Machine's behaviour, a cron script can be setup to backup at regular interval. For example, the following cron job checks if the drive "/mnt/backup" is currently connected and, if it is, starts the backup. It does this check every 1 hour.
0 */1 * * * if [[ -d /mnt/backup ]]; then rsync_tmbackup.sh /home /mnt/backup; fi
0 */1 * * * if [[ -d /mnt/backup ]]; then rsync_tmbackup.sh /home /mnt/backup; fi
* The use `flock` is recommended so that only one instance of the script runs at a given time:
flock -n /tmp/rsync_tmbackup.lock rsync_tmbackup.sh /home /mnt/backup
## Exclude file
An optional exclude file can be provided as a third parameter. It should be compatible with the `--exclude-from` parameter of rsync. See [this tutorial](https://sites.google.com/site/rsync2u/home/rsync-tutorial/the-exclude-from-option) for more information.
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rsync_tmbackup --rsync-set-flags "--numeric-ids --links --hard-links --one-file-system --archive --no-perms --no-groups --itemize-changes" /src /dest
## Lock file
The use of a lock-file is recommended for larger backups. [Flock(1)](https://github.com/discoteq/flock) is an easy way to get lock files and can be installed with Homebrew. Please refer to its GitHub page for more details. To use flock with the script, see this example:
flock -n /tmp/rsync.lock sh -c 'bash rsync_tmbackup.sh /home /mnt/backup_drive'
# Features
* Each backup is on its own folder named after the current timestamp. Files can be copied and restored directly, without any intermediate tool.