Here are some examples of how I use rsync.
To backup my wife's home directory, which consists of large MS
Word files and mail folders, I use a cron job that runs
rsync -Cavz . arvidsjaur:backup
each night over a PPP connection to a duplicate directory on my
machine "arvidsjaur".
To synchronize my samba source trees I use the following Makefile
targets:
get:
rsync -avuzb --exclude '*~' samba:samba/ .
put:
rsync -Cavuzb . samba:samba/
sync: get put
This allows me to sync with a CVS directory at the other end of
the connection. I then do CVS operations on the remote machine,
which saves a lot of time as the remote CVS protocol isn't very
efficient.
I mirror a directory between my "old" and "new" ftp sites with
the command:
rsync -az -e ssh --delete ~ftp/pub/samba nimbus:"~ftp/pub/tridge"
This is launched from cron every few hours.
