rsync resources
Please let us know if you have any rsync-related
documents to add to this list:
- Google knows more than we do. Feel free to
search google for rsync.
-
2002-05-15: rsync is not official GNU software, but we try to
work more or less in accordance with their Guidelines for
Maintaining GNU Software.
- 2002-04-10: A new tutorial on using rsync to create a system of rotating
backups, by Mike Rubel.
- If you still don't know what rsync is then take a look at the README.
- There is now a perl script that implements
an
atomic update of the received files at the end of the transfer (when pulling).
- Brian Elliott Finley has put together a great Linux install system based
on rsync. You you read about it at http://thefinleys.com/SystemImager/
- Dirvish is a fast, disk based,
rotating network backup system that was originally written by JW Schultz.
- BackupPC: a backup
system using rsync. Hard-links all identical files (even between multiple
runs and multiple backup sources), compresses the files, provides an easy
interface to find and restore files, etc.
- drsync: a wrapper for rsync
that remembers file sets between invocations so that a 2-way synchronization
of two systems is possible.
- rsyncbackup: a helper
script that uses config files to setup multiple backup scenarios and
invokes rsync (or rsyncX on MacOS).
- For those wanting to use launchd to run an rsync daemon (e.g. Mac
OS X Tiger users), Glen Scott provides the necessary
rsync.plist
file.
- There are a few choices for making rsync work with OS X's resource forks.
One is the official apple patch found on their opendarwin site, such as
this one
(I've heard patch inefficiently transfers the entire resource fork information
for every file on every transfer.) Another choice is to use a third-party
adapted rsync, such as
rsyncx or a
rsync+hfsmode
patch by D Andrew Reynhout. For the future, I would like to see an rsync
that supports ACLs and Posix xattrs adapted to interact with resource forks in
a seamless way (if that's possible).
- Piero Orsoni wrote a GTK-based GUI for rsync called
grsync.
- Thomas Roessler has written an rsync wrapper for
efficient,
safe CVS mirroring.
- Rsync is distributed with the
rrsync perl script
that lets you restrict the rsync commands that can be run via ssh. (This is
an enhanced version of Joe Smith's
original.)
- Lee Eakin has written a perl wrapper for rsync.
- A wire-compatible rsync implementation in perl.
- A REXX implementation of rsync.
- An initial version of a rewrite of rsync for .Net.
- A patch for gzip that implements
the
--rsyncable option makes the transfer of gzip-compressed files more efficient.
- You might want to check out an encryption program that is being developed
to produce more rsync-friendly output:
rsyncrypto.
- If you need a 2-way synchronization because both ends of the transfer may
be changing files, you may want to either look into a tool designed to do this
(e.g. unison), or you may
wish to use an external wrapper for rsync that keeps extra data about what was
in the last transfer so that it can figure out if a file is new or deleted
(e.g. drsync).