User:Ixo/Script/get-xo

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get-ixo

Summary

get-ixo: Get a local copy/backup of your XO Laptop /home directory.

Description

From server (or any other computer), backup and copy files from XO Laptop.
Script can ran multiple times, will only copy over files which have changed.

Benefits

Creates a backup of /home/olpc in case of errors or mistaken deletions.
Allows examination of files on different machine, with better local tools and resources.
run between operations on the XO, to see files created or updated.

#!/usr/bin/bash
#### FILE: get-ixo ########
# 2008 01 12, Iain D, ixo AT myna DOT ws
## RELEASED under CC-BY-SA-NC 3.0 license.
 
rsync --verbose --progress --times --perms --recursive --compress --links --rsh="ssh" \
   olpc@192.168.0.12:/home /home/Downloads/OLPC-BACKUP

NOTES:

Command is one single line.
Must setup password for olpc account, via 'root' command of $ sudo passwd olpc .
192.168.0.12 is the IP address of the OLPC XO Laptop.
/home/Downloads/OLPC-BACKUP is local directory for the backup

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