User:Ixo/Script/get-xo

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