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Quick rsync to backup your home dir and mysql databases.

#!/bin/bash
#RUN the below script using "nohup - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty"
#admin@serversignature.com
IP=192.168.0.1
rsync -vrplogDtH --exclude=virtfs/ --progress -e ssh root@$IP:/home/ /home/

#END

OPTIONS SUMMARY

Here is a short summary of the options available in rsync. Please refer to the detailed description below for a complete description.

-v, --verbose increase verbosity
-r, --recursive recurse into directories
-l, --links copy symlinks as symlinks
-L, --copy-links transform symlink into referent file/dir
-H, --hard-links preserve hard links
-p, --perms preserve permissions
-o, --owner preserve owner (super-user only)
-D same as --devices --specials
-t, --times preserve modification times
-n, --dry-run perform a trial run with no changes made
-e, --rsh=COMMAND specify the remote shell to use

rsync backup to a central backup server with 7 day incremental

We can use – `date +%A-%D` in the script.

$ echo `date +%A-%D`
Saturday-10/31/09

#!/bin/sh

# This script does personal backups to a rsync backup server. You will end up
# with a 7 day rotating incremental backup. The incrementals will go
# into subdirectories named after the day of the week, and the current
# full backup goes into a directory called “current”
# tridge@linuxcare.com

# directory to backup
BDIR=/home/$USER

# excludes file – this contains a wildcard pattern per line of files to exclude
EXCLUDES=$HOME/cron/excludes

# the name of the backup machine
BSERVER=owl

# your password on the backup server
export RSYNC_PASSWORD=XXXXXX

############################

BACKUPDIR=`date +%A`
OPTS=”–force –ignore-errors –delete-excluded –exclude-from=$EXCLUDES
–delete –backup –backup-dir=/$BACKUPDIR -a”

export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin

# the following line clears the last weeks incremental directory
[ -d $HOME/emptydir ] || mkdir $HOME/emptydir
rsync --delete -a $HOME/emptydir/ $BSERVER::$USER/$BACKUPDIR/
rmdir $HOME/emptydir

# now the actual transfer
rsync $OPTS $BDIR $BSERVER::$USER/current

backup to a spare disk

I do local backups on several of my machines using rsync. I have an
extra disk installed that can hold all the contents of the main
disk. I then have a nightly cron job that backs up the main disk to
the backup. This is the script I use on one of those machines.

#!/bin/sh

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin

LIST=”rootfs usr data data2″

for d in $LIST; do
mount /backup/$d
rsync -ax –exclude fstab –delete /$d/ /backup/$d/
umount /backup/$d
done

DAY=`date “+%A”`

rsync -a –delete /usr/local/apache /data2/backups/$DAY
rsync -a –delete /data/solid /data2/backups/$DAY

The first part does the backup on the spare disk. The second part backs up the critical parts to daily directories. I also backup the critical parts using a rsync over ssh to a remote machine