Table of Contents
- Scope
- Installation
- Warning
- Usage
Scope
The scope of this gem is to install the specified rsync command into the crontab schedule.
Installation
Install the gem from your shell:
gem install rsync_cronWarning
Be aware that this library will write to the crontab file in a destructive way.
Do remember to take a backup before installing a new crontab.
Usage
The gem comes with a CLI interface, you can print its help by:
rsync_cron -h
Usage: rsync_cron --cron='15,30 21' --src=/ --dest=/tmp --log=/var/log/rsync.log --opts=noatime,temp-dir='./temp'
-c, --cron=CRON The cron string, i.e.: '15 21 * * *'
-s, --src=SRC The rsync source, i.e. user@src.com:files
-d, --dest=DEST The rsync dest, i.e. user@dest.com:home/
-l, --log=LOG Log command output to specified file
-o, --opts=OPTS Merge specified extra options, when supported
-p, --print Print crontab command without installing it
-k, --check Check src and dest before installing crontab
-h, --help Prints this helpDefault schedule
The crontab is scheduled one per day by default (at midnight).
You can specify a different schedule directly on the command line:
# run every sunday
rsync_cron --cron='* * * * 0' --src=user@src.com:files --dest=~/tmp