HOWTO: Synchronise data between multiple computers

1) rsync -arvuzP -e “ssh -p " install/ [email protected]:~/install

Options:

-a   archive mode
-r   recurse into directories
-v   increase verbosity
-u   skip files, that are newer on the receiver
-z   compress data during file transfer
-P   print information about transfer progress

HOWTO: Clone entire ‘root’ partition

1) Mount partition to be cloned

sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/root

2) Clone data to new partition ‘/clone’

sudo rsync -aAXv /mnt/root/* /clone \
  --exclude={/mnt/root/dev/*,/mnt/root/proc/*,/mnt/root/sys/*,/mnt/root/tmp/*,/mnt/root/run/*,/mnt/root/mnt/*,/mnt/root/media/*,/mnt/root/lost+found,/mnt/root/var/cache/zypp,/mnt/root/var/log/*}

HOWTO: Backup data on MacOSX

caffeinate -i rsync --info=progress2 --max-size=4GiB -Lruvz .vim smolya:/run/media/mabalenk/WINDOWS/backup/gelfand/.vim