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| About autosync... |
July 26, 2007 |
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The autosync utility can be used to backup (or mirror) a set of directories using the rsync utility to transport the data in question. I use this utility to backup user home directories to an NFS-mounted disk on several clusters.
The utility is written in Perl and should be fairly self-explanatory. Some features:
- Configuration via external files -- minimal script editing necessary
- Email-based reports of error conditions
- Preserves the source directory structure within the target mirror directory
What is meant by that last feature is that autosync treats the mirror location as a virtual root directory, so backing-up /home/frey to /mirror yields the path /mirror/home/frey for the content. |
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| Sample configuration file |
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#
# autosync.conf
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# This file contains all directories/files that should be mirrored to
# the bikini-bottom archive for squidward.
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# Where do we backup to?
$mirror-dir = /bikini-bottom/squidward-mirror
# For mailing of the report:
$mail-to = frey@udel.edu
$mail-subject = squidward.che: autosync report
# Users' home directories:
/home/abhijit
/home/annemarie
/home/asawari
/home/danalis
/home/fsr23
/home/frey
/home/gbourb
/home/justin
/home/karim
/home/ludwig
/home/niket
/home/snyder
/home/soumitra
/home/stavros
/home/vlachos
# Hey, why not save the warewulf conf too?
/etc/warewulf
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| autosync |
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version 1.0
An automated, multi-path backup tool that uses rsync for transport.
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This software is made available under a BSD-style open source license.
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