Greetings,
I've been using rsync to backup from my various desktops and laptops to an in-house networked server. A variant of the script is appended below. Located in /etc/cron.hourly, the script pings a machine to see if it is live; if so, it proceeds to do an incremental backup to a machine-specific location on a dedicated drive. Components of this script were suggested, and then I adapted it for my situation.
Where I seem to run into some trouble is when I try to restore from the dedicated drive when it is attached to a machine via USB cable. Specifically, when running a command such as this: rsync -av /var/backup/machine1/home/SomeUser /home
I get a lot of messages such as this: rsync: [receiver] mkstemp "/path/to/some/file.0atuCZ" failed: Invalid argument (22)
In the process, not all files are restored.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
MP pyz@brama.com
#### Begin Rsync Script ###### #!/bin/sh
HOSTS="machine1 machine2" RSYNC=/usr/bin/rsync SSH=/usr/bin/ssh KEY="/root/.ssh/rsync-key" RUSER=root RPATH=/home
for RHOST in $HOSTS do ping -q -c 1 -w 5 $RHOST > /dev/null if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "$RHOST is pingable" LPATH="/var/backup2/$RHOST"
echo "$RUSER $RHOST $RPATH $LPATH" $RSYNC -avz --delete -e "$SSH -i $KEY" $RUSER@$RHOST:$RPATH $LPATH # $RSYNC -avz -e "$SSH -i $KEY" $RUSER@$RHOST:$RPATH $LPATH
sleep 5
fi done exit