Backups go with rsync from the laptop to apollo (hardware node) with a 1TB external USB disk.
Target directories are
cd ~ rsync -a . apollo.computerhok.nl:/mnt/sdb2/esther/
sent 19455014824 bytes received 2494918 bytes 9950145.61 bytes/sec total size is 34192630272 speedup is 1.76 rsync warning: some files vanished before they could be transferred (code 24) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/main.c(992) [sender=2.6.9]
Or for my MacBook:
time rsync -a .cf .ssh .gnupg .flyrc .zsh_history .zshrc .aws .credhub .oh-my-zsh .git-credentials .gitconfig Pictures .zoomus .bashrc .bash_history Documents workspace Downloads go apollo:/mnt/seagate/harry/athena
sent 9,778,021,581 bytes received 1,117,494 bytes 10,331,895.48 bytes/sec total size is 9,771,719,145 speedup is 1.00
Rsync is performed with an --exclude-from parameter. The file that holds the exclusions, is centrally managed here : RSYNCEXCLUDELIST
The script is like this :
#!/bin/bash
#
# backup with rsync to another host
EXCLUDEFILE=`mktemp`
wget --quiet -O - 'http://www.computerhok.nl/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=RSYNCEXCLUDELIST'|grep EXCLUDEPATTERN | cut -d" " -f2 > $EXCLUDEFILE
echo "excluding following patterns:" `cat ${EXCLUDEFILE}`
rsync --verbose --recursive --delete-excluded --exclude-from=${EXCLUDEFILE} /home/${USER}/ apollo:/mnt/seagate2/harry/athena/home
rm $EXCLUDEFILE
That should be done with something I still have to setup, plain copying/dumping the 1TB external disk to a second one that is remote.