Backup laptops#

Backups gaan met rsync van de 3 laptops naar de grafspee (hardware node) m.b.v. rsync.

Target directory is /var/lib/vz/backup/<sysname>. (/var/lib/vz is mountpoint met 100 GB}

Systemen zijn:

• bismarck claudia)
• gladiator (esther)
• interceptor (anneke)

Inrichting#

• grafspee
  • useradd --home /home/claudia --gid 1001 --create-home --uid 1001 --shell /bin/bash claudia
  • passwd claudia
• bismarck:
  • ssh-keygen
  • ssh-copy-id grafspee

Unique uid's#

rsync proces#

rsync --recursive --exclude='/home/${USER}/.cache' --exclude='/home/${USER}/.config' --exclude='/home/${USER}/.java' /home/${USER} grafspee:/var/lib/vz/backup/bismarck

Exclude list#

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/JSPWiki/Wiki.jsp?page=RSYNCEXCLUDELIST'|grep EXCLUDEPATTERN | cut -d" " -f2 > $EXCLUDEFILE
echo "excluding following patterns:" `cat ${EXCLUDEFILE}`
rsync --verbose --recursive --exclude-from=${EXCLUDEFILE} /home/${USER}/ grafspee:/var/lib/vz/backup/bismarck/home/${USER}
rm $EXCLUDEFILE