tlug: rsync - making a wrapper

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

After some discussion earlier about rdist & rsync, I decided to give
rsync another try. Having used it to copy ~400MB or so from our US
office, flawlessly, I'm a convert. All Hail rsync.

The advantages so far are:

	- compresses files over the link
	- can copy files even when parent dir is not writable. rdist
	  fails.
	- checking tree for update much faster ( subjective, didn't time
	  it )

Disadvantages:
	
	- does not support distributing to multiple machines

Tokorde, I started to put together a wrapper script around it. My
goals are:

	- keep log files for each run
	- optional mail log file when finished
	- files/directories to copy, other options etc, should be in
	  config file

I thought of trying to parse rdist config files, but that seemed bit
more ambitious than I really wanted to be.

What I'm thinking of now for the config file is to have it contain
three sets of information:

	1) rsync command line options
	2) rsync wrapper script options
	3) list of source and destination files, machines

I was not planning to have support for multiple destinations, ala
rdist. I don't need it for my application, but maybe it would be
useful. 

Now that I know more or less what I need, does anyone know is such a
script exists? If not, any comments on feature list?

Thanks for your help.

	Andy

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