Best Rsync GUI

[marisdembovskis]

Hi, guys!
I'm looking for backing up my File Server (FC5) and need some GUI for Rsync, which could make automatic (without typing every day) backups of my files.

So what do you suggest?
Is out there some good GUI for RSync?

Thanks.
Maris

[pparks1]

Up front, this doesn't have a GUI but it's based on rsync and is what I use

rsnapshot. www.rsnapshot.org

A pretty simple configuration file and a few cron jobs and you are all done.



Also, if you are just trying to backup your server to another location, you could just use a script with the rync syntax and then run a cron job for this. It's pretty easy and we could certainly help you out with it.

example of a script, call it /root/backupjob.sh

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/rsync -a --delete  /directory_to_backup   /destination_for_backup

chmod 700 /root/backupjob.sh

example of crontab entry;

crontab -e

1 23 * * *  /root/backupjob.sh >  /dev/null 2>&1 &

[marisdembovskis]

Thanks, pparks1! i TESTED RSYNC. WORKS FINE.
Did not figured out, how rsnapshot works.

[root@bobis bin]# /usr/bin/rsync -a /var/spool/hylafax/recvq/ 192.168.1.20:/home/backup/recvq
and
[root@bobis bin]# /usr/bin/rsync -a /home/tools/ 192.168.1.20:/home/backup/tools

and it copies 15,5 MB in one second. super! i like it.
Just want to make it automatic. !???! how, still trying to understand.

[infestor]

any other GUI suggestions?

[Adunaic]

Originally Posted by marisdembovskis

Thanks, pparks1! i TESTED RSYNC. WORKS FINE.
Did not figured out, how rsnapshot works.

[root@bobis bin]# /usr/bin/rsync -a /var/spool/hylafax/recvq/ 192.168.1.20:/home/backup/recvq
and
[root@bobis bin]# /usr/bin/rsync -a /home/tools/ 192.168.1.20:/home/backup/tools

and it copies 15,5 MB in one second. super! i like it.
Just want to make it automatic. !???! how, still trying to understand.

How automatic are you wanting it?

You could use `date` and then if you do one backup a day it will have a unique name.

I use crontab and rsync with a little script to have a 3 day rotation of backups.

What level are you looking for?

[sej7278]

be careful to preserve permissions and ownership with rsync, and always do it as root, also the trailing slash makes a difference on directories. i use:

rsync -avzp --delete --progress --numeric-ids /source/ /destination/

if you want a gui look into backintime-gnome or maybe deja-dup

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by infestor

any other GUI suggestions?

grsync

http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/p...packageID=5015

[flyingfsck]

Well, where the GUIs usually go wrong is that they allow you specify exactly what you want to backup...

However, rsync works best if you tell it what NOT to backup, since the schtuff that you WANT to backup is changing all the time!

So I make a one line rsync script which tell it to backup /home, and then I use --exclude, to avoid backing up crud like *cache*, *trash*, *iso and so on, then I drop this one line script into /etc/cron.daily. The result is a set and forget backup system.

[patrick013]

Lucky Backup GUI for rsync.
Has excellent manual.

FYI