[TriLUG] rsyncd.conf
Alan Porter
porter at trilug.org
Fri Feb 10 15:17:01 EST 2006
I recently installed a BackupPC system at $WORK, and it
seems to hum along nicely. It backs up our PC's, and it's
got a nice web interface.
See http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Now I am thinking about installing it at home. If I want
to back up the entire PC's drive, it works great, but I
am trying to be a little more selective about it.
If I want to back up:
- the entire drive - works OK
- a few top-level directories - works OK
- just /home, /etc, and /var/log - does not get /var/log
A little background...
BackupPC will fetch files from the client PC's using one of
three mechanisms: (1) Samba (2) rsync/ssh (3) rsync/rsyncd.
I am using option #3. On the client PC, I installed rsync
and set RSYNC_ENABLE=true in /etc/defaults/rsync.
I know that the problem has to do with my /etc/rsyncd.conf
file. I would like to define one "module", but I'd like
that module to contain a list of directories to back up.
My /etc/rsyncd.conf file looks like this:
# GLOBAL OPTIONS
log file=/var/log/rsyncd
pid file=/var/run/rsyncd.pid
# the one module that the BackupPC server looks for
[backuppc]
comment = backuppc files
path = /
use chroot = no
read only = no
list = no
uid = root
exclude = /* /*/
include = /home/ /root/ /etc/ /var/log/
auth users = backuppc
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
hosts allow = bpcserver
<some options deleted>
I don't want to pull in all of /var just to get /var/log.
I don't want to define several modules: backuppc[1-9].
I don't want to make a detailed list of excludes from /var.
I just want to back up MY list of directories.
Anyone know the proper way to tell rsyncd to do that?
Alan
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