A few days ago I wanted to Migrate an Ubuntu VPS from one provider to another. I tried to take a snapshot and try to migrate, but it did not work. The VPS had few random services, so migrating services one by one was not easy. What I did was set up a new Ubuntu … Read more
I want to rsync files from one server to another server every 5 minutes, but only want to start the rsync if the previous rsync command has finished. Time for one rsync depends on how much data changed on the source server, so the time taken to finish rsync cronjob varies. Create file rsync.sh #!/bin/bash … Read more
I wanted to transfer some files between two computers, but don’t want to use all bandwidth available on the network as it will affect other users on the network. To limit bandwidth, use –bwlimit Option. rsync -avzP –bwlimit=1500 /mnt/data/learn/css/BootStrap3/ root@192.168.1.8:/home/php-tutorial/BootStrap3/ Here –bwlimit=1500 will limit bandwidth usage to 1.5 MB/s. See rsync
When copying a large site form a shared server using rsync, the rsync process on get killed, this may be done by some program on shared host or server admin manually killing the process. Here is a bash script that will check if rsync exited normally or not, then retry the trasfter is rsync failure … Read more
Here are some tools that can be used to sync files between 2 servers. rsync lsyncd unison
rsync command with exclude option, full server backup to a remote server. Transfer a file I normally use scp to do single file transfer. It may be better to it with rsync as you will be able to resume. -P == –partial –progress If you use non standard SSH port, then replace -e ssh with … Read more