Re: Simple backups

["Michael F. Sprague" <mfs@sanellc.net>]

schnitzel meister <schnitzelmeister@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
> I have lots of hosts running Sarge.
> The data on each of the hosts is generally in a defined location, the
> rest of the machine is the same.
> 
> I would like to run a regular job on each host to create an archive of
> just these
> unique files, as defined by a file which might look like:
> 
> /etc/postfix/
> /etc/someconfig.conf
> 
> The archive would be collected by a remote scp nightly.
> 
> I cannot find a package which does this task, I wondered if anyone
> could suggest one?
> If not, I'll write a script. Thanks.

Sounds like a job for rsync.  :)

Rsync users ssh for transfer and you can have include files pretty much in the
format you describe above.

thanks,
M

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