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Date:      Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:43:26 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Grant Peel <grant@thenetnow.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Backups
Message-ID:  <3E2DE92E.5060908@potentialtech.com>
References:  <000701c2c1a3$4365cbd0$6501a8c0@grant>

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Grant Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been researching a way to completely mirror a disk once or twice a
> week. At this point, it looks like a small script using dump is in order.
> 
> My question is for all the rsync fans. (I have installed and am reading man
> pages). What would you suggest for a command line in crone to completely
> mirror one disk to another (both local). Permissions, ownerships, hidden
> files etc etc etc.

The -a flag to rsync seems to be specially designed for the purpose you describe.
Something like:
00	4	*	*	1-6	root	/usr/local/bin/rsync -a /orig/path/* /backup/path/
Works great for me.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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