Re: rsyncd.conf - Specifying /home/user for Daemon?

[Nicolas Bercher <nbercher@yahoo.fr>]

Hal Vaughan a écrit :
> Anything I search for to find this keeps giving me links to backing up your home directory, and I know how to do that.
>
> What I'm concerned with is setting the home directory in /etc/rsyncd.conf.  In other words, if I type:
>
> rsync thisdir me@backupsys::Backup
>
> How can I specify in rsyncd.conf that it's using /home/me/Backup?
>
> I've tried something like this:
>
> [Backup]
> path = $HOME/Backup/
> Comment = Backup service for each individual user
> read only = no
>
> and I can't get that to work.  I tried using "~/Backup" for the path and using RSYNC_USER_NAME and %u, but that won't work.  So how can I specify, in rsyncd.conf that the path leads to a directory in the home directory of the logged in rsync user?
>
>
> Thanks for any help on this!

Can't you write a rule per homedir (user) to backup?  If you have
too many users to do it by hand, you may write a script that
automatically updates /etc/rsyncd.conf.

For example, I do this to maintain /etc/fstab and /etc/hosts on a few
computers, by concatenating /etc/<conf>.d/* to /etc/<conf> see this
script:

  https://github.com/Atha/update-conf.d/

Nicolas