backup-with-rsync 0.9.2

Simple backup wrapper with configuration over rsync for regularly backing up via command line.

Backup With rsync

Does what it says. Useful for frequent syncing between two devices with similar directory hierarchies. I use it for daily copying (over ssh) between one laptop (desktop replacement at home) to the other (more portable laptop).

Why?

rsync has a lot of switches, and it’s exhausting to loop over them with say --delete flag for certain directories and not for others. With this script one can specify all that in a configuration file and just sync whenever you want.

Features

• yaml configuration to specify directories and flags

• Overriding arguments supported at command line.

• Sensible rsync defaults

Example configuration

host:
  user@portable
root:
  /home/user
supported_dirs:
  Documents:
    delete: false
  Downloads:
    delete: false
  Mail:
    delete: true
  Videos:
    delete: true