How do you guys prefer to backup your opt/Autodesk folders? Im exploring some snapshot solutions and I think Im running into permissions issues from my local opt/Autodesk to shared storage.
And, which long arguments for rsync do you use?
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I use Syncthing for projects. I think it may be based on rsync… not sure. I has per file versioning and somehow complex files include/exclude options.
I have a script I run manually (but could be cron’d) that throws everything in a rolling day-of-week folder on my local media storage drive:
#!/bin/sh
bkday=`date +%u-%a`
rsync --archive --verbose --numeric-ids --delete --human-readable --exclude-from=/root/scripts/flame_exclude /opt/Autodesk/ /mnt/StorageMedia/backups/flame/$bkday/
and my /root/scripts/flame_exclude contains:
/cache
/DKU
/trash
Remote destinations work too (I have a similar script I sometimes use that doesn’t do the day-of-week clones but keeps a single backup on a separate rsync server.)
And I run it as root (or sudo) because I’m lazy.
I’m on a mac and use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone all my drives to various destinations. It’s very easy to use and is very cheap.