August 28, 201015 yr Now that I got my second server up and running, I would like to set up a scheduled back up of certain shares on Tower1 to Tower2. I think i got down the basics of the syntax for the rsyncd.conf file, and am able to sync Photos share (for now) manually but when it comes to automating all this I am in quite over my head, so I'd really appreciate some guidance on this. Here is what I am doing and questions I have: 1. Following JoeL's examples, I set up rsyncd.conf file on Tower2: uid = root gid = root use chroot = no max connections = 4 pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid timeout = 600 log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log [Photos] path = /mnt/user/media/Backups/Photos comment = /mnt files read only = FALSE 2. Automatically invoke rsync daemon process on Tower2 every time the server is rebooted. So, manually the daemon is invoked with this command: rsync --daemon --config=/boot/config/rsyncd.conf Should it be added to the go script? It would make sense, but I am curious why I don't see this command in the 'go' script in the example from this thread - http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3417.0 3. To start the rsync process based on some schedule, I understand I need to add something similar to this cron job to 'go' script on Tower1: #set up rsync between the two servers every other day at 3 am - will be commented out for Server2 go script echo "0 3 2-6,8-13,15-20,21-31 * * /usr/bin/rsync rsync://Server2/disk1/*" >>/tmp/crontab echo "0 3 2-6,8-13,15-20,21-31 * * /usr/bin/rsync rsync://Server2/disk2/*" >>/tmp/crontab echo "0 3 2-6,8-13,15-20,21-31 * * /usr/bin/rsync rsync://Server2/disk3/*" >>/tmp/crontab Say if in my case I want to build upon this manual command to do daily backups: cd /mnt rsync -avrH user/media/Photos tower2::Photos What should my entry be? I am trying to make sense of the example above but I am not sure I get all the syntax yet. Anything else I am missing?
June 12, 201115 yr I realize this post above is almost 1 year old but I would love to know how to get the cron job to work. I have a similar setup now and want to make sure I can get the cron job setup each time I reboot! Thanks, Neil
June 12, 201115 yr I third this one. I am nearing the steps of wanting to backup my unraid to an off-site unraid that I will be hosting at another location and I would like to setup an auto backup... ::starts some popcorn::
June 12, 201115 yr The crontab portion is not correct for a task on "every other day". It should look like this: "0 3 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30 * * /usr/bin/rsync rsync://Server2/disk1/*" http://www.openjs.com/scripts/jslibrary/demos/crontab.php
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