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Describe How to Set Up Rsync here.install rsync on both client and server. they should have the same versions of rsync installed.

$apt-get install rsync

Create new ssh key w/out password

$ssh-keygen -f rsync_key -C 'Rsync Key' -N '' -t rsa -q

copy key to server

ssh-copy-id -i /home/user/.ssh/rsync_key.pub jesterj@server
jesterj@server's password:
Now try logging into the machine, with "ssh 'jesterj@server'", and check in:

  .ssh/authorized_keys

test login with specified key

slogin -i ~/.ssh/rsync_key backupuser@server1

Make sure rsync is running.

/etc/init.d/rsync start

Test from local machine to verify you can connect:

$ rsync -e ssh localhost::

Now run this command from backup server to sync files. the ‘n’ aoption does a test run. remove it to do an actual sync.

rsync -van --delete --ignore-errors -e "ssh -i /home/user/.ssh/rsync_key" /source/path jesterj@server:/backup/path

Add command to cron to repeat.

*The '--delete' means to delete items that don't exist in the backup location, --ignore-errors, continues the  backup
even though errors exist.

Uncategorized rsync