[Leaplist] rsync shell script for mac

[Kevin Inscoe]

yeah yeah yeah I know... :-)

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote:
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> Hint: --exclude-from=file.txt
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> On 02/24/10 11:58, Kevin Inscoe wrote:
>> Here are my excludes:
>>
>> -apztlvx --exclude="private/tmp/*"
>> --exclude="Users/kevin/Library/Caches/*" --exclude="private/var/run/*"
>> --exclude="Library/Google/Google Desktop/Index/*"
>> --exclude="Library/Application Support/LANDesk/*"
>> --exclude="Library/Caches/*" --exclude="private/tmp/*"
>> --exclude="usr/local/vscanx/*" --exclude=".fseventsd/*"
>> --exclude=".Spotlight-V100/*" --exclude="Library/Logs/CrashReporter/*"
>> --exclude="/Users/kevin/Library/Application Support/Google/Google
>> Desktop/Index/*" --exclude="/proc/*" --exclude="/dev/*"
>> --exclude="/tmp/*" --stats --delete
>>
>> but keep in mind this is a recovery backup and not a user files backup.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Tom Foster <tf at linuxceptional.com> wrote:
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> My sister was just complaining the other day that it would be tragic
>>> if any of the work she had done with her mac was lost.  I managed to
>>> find the terminal program, and used rsync to save files to an external
>>> drive.
>>>
>>> So I have two or three questions.  What are mac osx files that should be
>>> excluded (put into an "exclude.txt")?  Also, what should a shell
>>> script for a mac look like?  Where is bash? is there a "~/bin/"
>>> equivalent?
>>>
>>> I'd also like to have a link to the script on the desktop and/or have
>>> it called by cron.  Mac does have cron, doesn't it?
>>>
>>> thanks.
>>>
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