Rsync Exclude File List Question

I'm preparing a rsync script to backup from one machine to another through ssh. For this I'm successful with the following:

IP=150.163.49.15
ORIGIN=/home
DESTINATION=samba

rsync -avzP --exclude={cristiano,marcelo} root@$IP:$ORIGIN $DESTINATION/

I would like to improve it, moving the exclude part to a variable also. I've unsuccessfully tried this:

IP=150.163.49.15
ORIGIN=/home
DESTINATION=samba
EXCLUDE={cristiano,marcelo}

rsync -avzP --exclude=$EXCLUDE root@$IP:$ORIGIN $DESTINATION/

What is wrong with the EXCLUDE syntax?

I am trying to write a simple test script that executes a single rsync call. Once I get the syntax right, the script will be expanded to incorporate several rsync instructions to save me time.

I'm using a Cygwin Terminal on Windows 7 to run Rsync.

The script is called "backup" and I call it from the cygwin terminal using "./backup". Have used chmod to make it executable.

When I execute the rsync instruction as a standalone instruction at terminal prompt, the file copies to the target folder perfectly.

However, when I try and drop the same instruction into a script, it copies the file over from it's original file name "mvi_1840.mov" to a file with the name "." -- literally a single period. I can rename the file to a .mov file and it works fine but naturally, I don't want to have to do this.

The one other thing I will mention is that the file is located in the /home/"username" directory in cygwin vs /bin. But I would not think that this would make a difference.

I have pasted the contents of the script file below:
Code:

#!/bin/bash
    rsync.exe -rltDvP --exclude "System Volume Information" --exclude
 "RECYCLER" --exclude=\$RECYCLE.BIN --delete "/cygdrive/c/users/<USERNAME>
/desktop/mvi_1840.mov" "/cygdrive/c/users/<USERNAME>/desktop/test/"

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Hi
I am trying to send lakh of small(JPG,PDF) files from one server to another. So am using rsync which helps differential copy, but when using it getting error as /usr/bin/rsync: Argument list too long.

Kindly help, other than rsync if any option is also there kindly update.

Thanks in advance


sswaran

Hi All,
I am trying to perform an rsync without a check sum verification at the end of the copy.

I have tried both the -W (whole file) and the --no-checksum option and at the end of both file copies it performs a verification.


Code:

[root@centsrv01 /]# nice -n 20 rsync -avz --no-checksum  --bwlimit=2000 --progress /opt/vidconvert/converted/testfile.mp4 /opt/RouterUSB/TV/ChromeCast/
sending incremental file list
testfile.mp4
  1400440237 100%    1.94MB/s    0:11:28 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)

I am copying from an XFS filesystem to a NTFS (CIFS) file system to a Samba share. Unfortunalty NFS is not an option.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

hello guys, just want to ask I have files on the server running SUSE 11 and i rsync to My WD Cloud via NFS.

but i notice some it shows some error like "This operation is not permitted"

I had used rsync -av parameters.

But when I used rsync -rltuv parameters it seems to work fine.

Why rsync -av parameter is used there are errors even though I set on WD My Cloud shared folder as the permissions as 777?

Thanks for any input.

What I did in windows was create images of my drive and restore them.

in linux I am running

Code:

rsync -aAXv --exclude={"/home/*","/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} /* /path/to/backup/folder

and this creates a folder for me with all my files, and apparently saves meta data like permissions and paths...

Since I'm using arch and things break sometimes,I'm booted into a CLI with errors and cannot figure my way out since I'm a noob... would I be able to just delete my entire root and replace it with the rsync backup without a problem?

Hey guys, I have rsync going to another remote server
it works good, however, lets say server A deleted a directory, server B wont sync up to it.

if I were to add a directory to Server A, then server B will add it as well. so server B is just not deleting stuff.

is there a proper rsync command i can use ?

would rsync -xzva --delete /src /dst delete everything and start the rsync from scratch? or is there another way to do this

Hi all

I got two questions about rsync:

1. I am copying a huge dir with lots of files, how do I see the overall progress? I put in the progress flag but now it show the progress each individual files.

2. Is rsync slower than cp? I used CP to copy over a NFS mount and that took about an hour. I am using rsync to copy over the same mount over the same NFS and so far it has taken 10 minutes to copy 7G. I got over 150G of stuff.

I just used rsync -avh --progress ...

Thanks
Davy

hey guys, sorry for asking a dumb question, but some of the terminology online is not grasping me well, and still leaving me confused


in crontab -e

I have a shell script that contains

rsync /home/willc86 willc86@server02:/home/willc86/backup

the script works good by itself, however i have to put in a password which I understand. i know crontab works, because i used rsync script in the local machine. I am just having problems trying to sync it to another server

how do i get this rsync going in crontab to back it up to another server.

I am getting the below error when try to run a perl script which copy mysql db using resync.

Could anyone please help



Creating log directories
Initializing data
WARNING: Use of this system is restricted and monitored!
This system is for the use of authorized users only. Individuals using
this computer system without authority, or in excess of their
authority, are subject to having all of their activities on this system
monitored and recorded by system personnel. In the course of
monitoring individuals improperly using this system, or in the course
of system maintenance, the activities of authorized users may also
be monitored. Anyone using this system expressly consents to such
monitoring and is advised that if such monitoring reveals possible
evidence of criminal activity, system personnel may provide the
evidence of such monitoring to law enforcement officials.
receiving incremental file list
rsync: opendir "/db/pluto/test" failed: Permission denied (13)
sent 12 bytes received 130 bytes 284.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 2 3) at main.c(1505) [generator=3.0.6]
Aborting : Database copy from primary to secondary failed.