My data is very important for me. So I wanted to backup a large folder from my fileserver to a USB-disk. I know I could take the disk to my fileserver and plug it in, but I'm lazy.
So with the following command I managed to backup my 230GB folder.
rsync -e ssh -avr tijs@192.168.0.104:/mnt/disk2/work /Volumes/Backups/
Edit the command below for your needs:
rsync -e ssh -avr remote-username@remote-ip:/folder /Volumes/USB-disk-name/
You could drop the "v"-option, so it won't output each filename in your terminal.
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Serge van Ginderachter schreef:
09/03/08
I'm not sure why you use the "-e ssh" option, unless this is mac specific? I always do
rsync -avr remote-username@remote-ip:/folder /Volumes/USB-disk-name/
You might also dry-run with the -n switch before, and test out the differences of using trailing slashes in source and or destination, which make a difference.
tijs schreef:
09/03/08
The -e options force the use of ssh instead of rsh. It will be slower but the data will be encrypted. For home use this would be useless.