easy_sync

• Did you just get a shiny new 1TB 2.5 inch external hard drive and suddenly have the urge to back 💩 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 😢

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

gem install easy_sync

• rsync 2.5.6 and up

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.

• 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