srero2 ‘Backing Up With Reyne. Backup Your Fle Efficiently Using. | by Viekle Li |The Startup | Medium Backing Up With Rsync Backup Your Files Efficiently Using Just The Command Line Vickie ti (Fatew ) Apr 23, 2020: 4 minread * Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Is it time for a backup? Having a backup for your files is important if you do any work on the computer. And if you are a system admin or a security professional, you might even be legally required to backup company files regularly. But unfortunately, creating backups can be a slow and laborious task. Today, we will talk about a tool that will make that process easier: Rsync! htpsmedium.comJswthvbacking-up-wih-rsyne 91529520638 48‘319/2021 Backing Up With Rsync. Backup Your Files Efficiently Using... | by Vickie Li| The Startup | Medium Rsync is a Linux tool used for backup and file recovery. It transfers and synchronizes files between a machine and an external hard drive, or across a network. Rsyne makes the process more efficient by comparing the modification dates and sizes of files, and only backing up when needed. Uploading And Downloading Files Using Rsync First, let’s go into the basics. How can you create a backup on a remote server using Rsyne? How can you update the backup files? And how can you delete them? This is the simplest usage of Rsyne: Where SRCis the source directory of your files, and DEST is the destination that you want to copy to, When you are uploading to a remote server, SRC would be a folder on your local machine, and DEST would be a folder on the remote server. Of course, we can also customize Rsyne’s behavior with options. One of the most useful options is “-a”, which tells Rsync to preserve everything and copy all files in the directory recursively. So to upload a folder to your backup server: :/path/to/backup_directory On the other hand, sometimes you might want to delete extra files in your backup server. The ” — delete” option tells Rsyne to delete files in the DEST directory that is not also present in the SRC directory. delete loc rname@remote_serve: rsyi directory path/to/backup_directory Congrats! You have now created a backup of your files. When the time comes, how can you download the backups to your local machine? htpsmedium.comJswthvbacking-up-wih-rsyne 91529520638 28sit Backing Up Wh Reyne. Backip Your Fes Econ Using. [by |The tap | Medium You can simply reverse the SRC and DEST locations, and files will be downloaded from the remote server instead. rsync ~a us local_dir ame@remote_server:/path/to/backup_directory y Dry Runs Sometimes, it is nice to be able to preview the changes that will happen before finalizing a change in your directorie: this is where Rsyne’s dry run feature becomes useful. The “— dry-run”, or “-n” option tells Rsync to not execute any file transfers, but show details of the file transfer that would happen instead. rsync ~av --dry-run local_directory username@remote_server:/path/to/backup_directory The “-v’ option can be used if you want to see the verbose output. You can even specify a log file to store the results if you want: syne -av --dry-run local_directory rname@remote_server: /path/to/backup_directory --log- path/to/log_file Using The Rsync Protocol In all of the above examples, Rsync will use a remote shell like SSH as the transport mechanism, Alternatively, you can connect to a remote Rsyne daemon directly by specifying the Rsyne protocol for the remote path. yne: //username@remote server: /module_name/file to download local_directory Rsync Server Configuration htpsmedium.comJswthvbacking-up-wih-rsyne 91529520638 38‘319/2021 Backing Up With Rsync. Backup Your Files Efficiently Using... | by Vickie Li| The Startup | Medium Finally, you can also launch a Rsyne daemon on your local machine. You might want to do this if you want others to be able to access your files or be able to upload files into your backup directory. The Rsyne daemon’s configuration file is located at “/etc/rsyned.conf”. If it is not already present on your computer, you'll need to create and edit it. Here's what a basic configuration file looks like: uid = root gid = root use chroot = yes log file = path to daemon lock file pid file th to process id file hosts allow = * #all hosts can connect #module options modulei] #module name comment = description for this module path = /vickie/public_rsync #file path associated w read only = yes #directory is read only, users canno h this module upload After you're done specifying the configuration, you can launch the daemon by running: syne --daemon Now the daemon is launched and Rsync is ready to accept connections! Anyone can now connect to your Rsyne daemon by using the Rsyne protocol. This command will download the file “file.txt” from your public Rsyne directory located at “/vickie/public_rsync”. rsync -a rsyne://username@your_server:/modulel/file.txt ocal directory Conclusion htpsmedium.comJswthvbacking-up-wih-rsyne 91529520638 48sit Backing Up Wh Reyne. Backip Your Fes Econ Using. [by |The Stap | Medium Rsync is a useful utility that streamlines the backup process. Today, we looked at how to upload and download files through Rsyne, and how to create a local Rsyne server by launching the daemon. Good luck. Thanks for reading! htpsmedium.comJswthvbacking-up-wih-rsyne 91529520638 58