Re: Simple backups

[schnitzel meister <schnitzelmeister@gmail.com>]

On 5/10/05, Michael F. Sprague <mfs@sanellc.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
> --
> Michael Sprague  | mfs@saneinc.net
> System and Network Engineering (SaNE), Inc
> use STD::disclaimer;

Can I ask why rsync? I need to fetch an archive of just the files
listed in a file.
I'm not sure I understant where would I use rsync? Thanks.