From 8f3c02bbddf3175e6f97e266467328625168dfc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dennis Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 15:50:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added short README about `rsync-backup.sh` --- rsync-backup/README | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 rsync-backup/README diff --git a/rsync-backup/README b/rsync-backup/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b3966bd --- /dev/null +++ b/rsync-backup/README @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +This script is intended to be used in a cronjob and will make regular `rsync`-backups of certain directories and files that can be defined in `rsync-backup.conf`. Once executed, the script will send out an email with the `rsync` log. + +The script makes use of the `rsync` `--delete`-flag. To prevent dataloss, backups can be interleave d to different target-directories. To do so, the script should be called with different configuration-files. + +## Usage +``` +./rsync-backup.sh -c +```