#Ubuntu grsync schedule download#

Alternatively, download it from the website. Tony, Ive just tried with the following line: sudo rsync -delete -azvv -e ssh /media/Dados/Torrents admin192.168.1.100:/Public/ where 192.168.1.100 is my actual QNAP IP and /media/Dados/Torrents is the actual source folder that I wanna back up.

#Ubuntu grsync schedule install#

To install it, open a terminal window, and search for grsync.

Some Linux distributions may have it in their repositories, and some may not. When it comes to the Grsync wrapper tool, it’s a bit iffy. You can use Task Scheduler, if you are running Windows, and iCal if you are on Mac. Search for rsync in your package manager and install it to the system. Another tool that is even simpler to use, I think, is grsync, which will mirror your selected folder(s) to a different location. To install GAdmin-Rsync on Debian/Ubuntu based systems, enter the. Gnome Scheduler might be the easiest way to schedule these backups for Linux. This is same as the recommended backup and in this you can change the settings include,exclude files,you can change the schedule time. To schedule backups, add the both sessions in your crontab file in your local system. Windows, Mac, and Linux have their own GUI based scheduler. Another useful method of preserving data is system imaging. Ideally, you will have a robust backup system in place, with a frequent schedule and verifiable, tested data restores. To get a Dropbox-like synchronization, you need to schedule Grsync to synchronize both your folder and the network folder. Use a tool like rsync (on the command line), Grsync (rsync with GUI), or just plain copy & paste in a file manager, to create a backup of your data.

To do this, we set our home folder, “home/zainul”, and not “home/zainul/document” in the destination field. Please remember that Grsync only copies the folder that you specify in the source field, and if you want to synchronize that folder, you need to specify a path to that folder in the destination field, not the actual folder.įor example, we want to synchronize the document folder in the back up drive with our document folder inside our home folder. This way, Grsync will download new files in the network folder into your computer. Once we have a session that backup our files to an external storage device, we have to create another one that synchronize files between the network folder and your computer.