Recipe: Backup snapshots with rsync

$ rsync -av source_path destination_path

Backup to remote location
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$ rsync -av source_dir username@host:PATH

Restore
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$ rsync -av username@host:PATH destination

Compression
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Use -z
$ rsync -avz /home/test /home/backups


Excluding files while archiving with rsync
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$ rsync -avz /home/code/some_code /mnt/disk/backup/code –-exclude "*.txt"

or
Use --exclude-from FILEPATH

Deleting non-existant while updating rsync backup
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$ rsync -avz SOURCE DESTINATION --delete

Scheduling backups at intervals
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$ crontab -e
Add the line,
0 */10 * * * rsync -avz /home/code user@IP_ADDRESS:/home/backups
# Above code schedules the rsync to be executed every 10 hours.