David Ehlers » Linux

rSync

David Ehlers — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:43:11 +0000

I’m done with lame file sync programs. I am always jumping around between a number of computers and need the latest files while not online and synced to cloud storage.

Rsync works great, is free, and is already installed on all macs.

Just open a shell and type: rsync –help

rsync -avx –progress –human-readable [source] [dest]

Learn more here:
rsync: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync

There’s even an awesome logo here: http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

s3 backup + mySql dump

David Ehlers — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:17:11 +0000

These two open source scripts are very useful when combined with cron:

s3 Tools : http://sourceforge.net/projects/s3tools/

OpenSource tools to access Amazon S3 file storage. s3cmd – unix-like tools to manipulate stored files from the command line, s3fuse – driver to mount the S3 storage locally.

and

automysqlbackup : http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/

A script to take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. Features – Backup mutiple databases – Single backup file or to a seperate file for each DB – Compress backup files – Backup remote servers

wget a complete site

David Ehlers — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:12:18 +0000

A quick way to archive a complete site via a shell:

wget -r http://yourwebsite.com

Here’s the man page.

GNU Wget 1.9, a non-interactive network retriever: Usage: wget [OPTION]… [URL]..