Rsync Mirror Finally Working
My homelab is still in a state of confusion, hardware will need to change location, and it's time for a reshuffling of hardware. But for now, I wanted to at least have a real backup of my mini server. Everything has been set up, I just have been having issues with rsync.
I think I remember one day I gave up and decided to run rsync as is without any pre-commands shuffling files around for me. I vaguely remember this going horribly due to ssh connection timeout and extremely slow file transfer speeds resulting in a partial copy.
Apparently this was either just a dream, I did actually get it to complete, or the computers liked something about today. I'm not sure. rsync-prelude didn't seem to navigate recursively, as I ran into before, so I just sent it using rsync as-is again, and it worked. Or at least it seems to have. I picked through several old "problem" directories along with ones that I knew were recent, and everything seems to be there.
This is good enough for me right now, so I installed a crontab and I'll monitor things over the next few days. I'm not going to bother with bi-directional backup, but it will be nice to have local gigabit speeds when at home trying to download.
I'll update on the status after a week or so, but for now, I've actually got a working backup.
Created: 2025-03-03