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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: billi on December 01, 2004, 08:39:24 AM
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I have been using Rsync to backup a server across the internet and it seems to work well.
I had to do a restore the other day (hdr failure) and used the following command line to get the home directory back
rsync -avz -e 'ssh -p 22' root@bkup-server:/bkup-dir/home/e-smith/ /home/e-smith
where bkup-server is a registered dns name at dyndns.org and /bkup-dir is the directory that I saved the backup to on the backup server.
To restore the /etc files I tried rsync -avz -e --exclude-from=etc-exlude 'ssh -p 22' root@bkup-server:/bkup-dir/etc/ /home/e-smith
I wanted to use the exlude file 'cause I backup the whole etc directory on the backup - just incase you know.
My problem is I cannot get the exclude file to work correctly.
I have tried many combo's on this but I get either too much (whole e-smith dir) or to little ( the directory structure but no content). Following is one such attempt (the anotation is for a bit of clarity and was not included in the file) :
# file name etc-exclude
+ /e-smith # used so rsync could recurse to ones below
+ /e-smith/templates-custom/ # restore essential whole dir
+ /e-smith/templates-users-custom/ # restore essential whole dir
+ /ssh/ # restore essential whole dir
+ /samba/ # restore essential whole dir
+ /group # restore essential file
+ /gshadow # restore essential file
+ /passwd # restore essential file
+ shadow # restore essential file
- * # excludes all other files and dir's
Does anyone know the right syntax for this file?
PS the \root directory should be restored also to match the flexbackup backup set.
Thanks