Bart Dorlandt - BAMweb.nl

Whether you want to backup your data, distribute files securely or mirror your working documents over the internet from the office to home, between computers on your local network, or from your computer to your web server, rsync can get the job done. Today we'll use rsync to mirror folders between a Mac and PC over a secure connection at the command line.

I use it to sync files between directories on different harddrives. So if one dies I have the other one...

For more information take a look at this site.

The command I use to backup certain directories: (in my crontab)

@hourly rsync -av --delete /home/bart/Documenten /backup

You can omit certain directories by using these options

--exclude=<dir1> --exclude=<dir2>

good luck

Take also a look at unison.

For a comparison between Rsync and Unison, take a look here