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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Rsync better use for backup Post 302787621 by hanson44 on Saturday 30th of March 2013 12:41:51 AM
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also I want to know how useful is Crontab for these kinds of work. , or  can I make Crontab run when both machines are on at a particular point  of time in the day / week ?

crontab is obviously very useful, with two reservations.

Obviously, if the one of the machines is down, cron will not run. Smilie You could set up some mechanism to compensate for that (write a timestamp file, and check the file was created), but it would be a bother.

You could make the two machines run a job at the same time, but you would have to make sure the clocks are exactly the same. It's probably better to let one of them do it's think first, and then an hour or whatever later, let the other one. Or might be some way to do everything on one machine, and it runs a remote process on the other.
 

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BACKUP-MANAGER-UPLOAD(8)				       backup-manager-upload					  BACKUP-MANAGER-UPLOAD(8)

NAME
backup-manager-upload - Multiprotocol uploader for backup-manager. SYNOPSIS
backup-manager-upload [options] date DESCRIPTION
backup-manager-upload will upload all the archives generated on the given date to the specified host with either ftp or scp. It's also possible to use this program for uploading data to an Amazon S3 account. Some metadates are available like "today" or "yesterday". REQUIRED ARGS
--mode=transfer-mode Select the transfer mode to use : ftp, scp, or s3. --host=hostname1,hostname2,...,hostnameN Select a list of remote hosts to connect to. --user=username Select the user to use for connection. OPTIONAL ARGS
--password=password Select the ftp user's password (only needed for ftp transfers). --key=path_to_private_key Select the ssh private key file to use when opening the ssh session for scp transfer. Obviously, this is only needed for scp transfer mode. If you don't specify a key file, the user's default private key will be used. --directory=directory Select the location on the remote host where files will be uploaded. Default is /backup/uploads. --bucket=bucket Sets the bucket name for the Amazon S3 service backup into. --root=directory Select the local directory where files are. Default is /var/archives --gpg-recipient=gpg-recipient Select the gpg public key for encryptiong the archives when uploading with the method ssh-gpg. This can be a short or long key id or a descriptive name. The precise syntax is described in the gpg man page. --list Just list the files to upload. --ftp-purge Purge the remote directory before uploading files in FTP mode. --s3-purge Purge the remote directory before uploading files in FTP mode. --ssh-purge Purge the remote directory before uploading files in SSH mode. --verbose Flag to enable verbose mode. date Date pattern to select some files to upload, can be a valid date (YYYYMMDD) or 'today' or 'yesterday'. ERROR CODES
If something goes wrong during an upload, backup-manager-upload will exit with a non null value. In such a case every error messages are sent to STDERR. Here are the possible error codes: bad command line (wrong arguments) : 10 FTP transfer failure : 20 SCP transfer failure : 21 S3 transfer failure : 22 Unknown upload method: 23 SEE ALSO
backup-manager(3) AUTHORS
Alexis Sukrieh - main code and design Brad Dixon - Amazon S3 upload method Jan Metzger - ssh-gpg upload method perl v5.14.2 2012-05-09 BACKUP-MANAGER-UPLOAD(8)
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