Rsync

I am getting tired to copy all data files, which are important for me, into other account or USB stick, since the copy process takes a long time. There are definitely better ways to do so.

Rsync is one of them.

• http://www.samba.org/rsync/
• http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/

rsync --verbose --progress --stats --recursive --times --perms --links --human-readable --exclude "*bak" --exclude "*~" --exclude "*#" --exclude "*_old.eps" ~/thesis/* /media/usbstick/thesis/

rsync --verbose --progress --stats --recursive --times --perms --links  --human-readable -e ssh  --exclude "*bak" --exclude "*~" --exclude "*#" --exclude "*_old.eps" ~/thesis/* user@host:~/thesis

I bought small usb disk and want to do backup my data using rsync. By using fdisk /dev/sda, I clean unnecessary files which were in the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini. (Datasheet for Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini.)

And made the script to do so.

#!/bin/sh
# http://www.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html

BACKUPDEST="/media/usb-backup/"

EXCLUDES="--exclude-from=$HOME/documents/r_sync/rsync_excludes"

OPTIONS=" --progress --stats --recursive --times --perms --copy-links --executability  --human-readable --itemize-changes"


LIST="thesis programming simulation.linux geant4 documents"

for d in $LIST; do
    rsync $OPTIONS $EXCLUDES $HOME/$d $BACKUPDEST/
done

rsync_excludes file is

*bak
*~
*#
.#*
*_old.eps