easy_sync

Why?

• Did you just get a shiny new 1TB 2.5 inch external hard drive and suddenly have the urge to back :poop: up?
• Did you just hear about CryptoLocker and thought crap how can i protect my friends and family?

Note: Once you get CryptoLocker it will encrypt the crap out of any drive letter it can find including mapped network shares :cry:

Now if you use Ruby plus Rsync you can easily have many cold snapshots to restore from :thumbsup:

Installation

gem install easy_sync

Requirements

• rsync 2.5.6 and up

Usage

Just run easy_sync to generate a template mapping file, configure your paths and next time you run easy_sync it will create the first backup. After first backup it will create incremental backups.

Todo

• ~~Given a source and destination a snapshot should be created.~~
• ~~It should use the latest backup for Rsync's --link-dest option and create a new snapshot with the files that changed.~~
• ~~Add logging~~
• If source or destination doesn't exists don't run rsync
• ~~excluded list~~
• ~~Support multiple source and destination configurations by using a yaml config file.~~
• ~~Convert to a gem and create a easy_sync bin file~~