defeat:~ phretor$ cat bin/backup
#!/bin/sh

USERNAME=$USER
CONFDIR=$HOME/etc/backup
SOURCE=$HOME/
TARGET_HOST=ecto
VOLUME=BackupDefeat

TARGET="$USER@$TARGET_HOST:/Volumes/$VOLUME/"
INCLUDES=$CONFDIR/includes
EXCLUDES=$CONFDIR/excludes
SSH=`which ssh`
RSYNC=`which rsync`
SUDO=`which sudo`

echo "Backup source: $SOURCE"
echo "Backup target: $TARGET"
echo "SSH: $SSH"

$SUDO $RSYNC -n                                         \
        -e $SSH                                         \
        -va --progress                                  \
        --include-from="$INCLUDES"                      \
        --exclude-from="$EXCLUDES"                      \
        $SOURCE $TARGET ;
defeat:~ phretor$ cat etc/backup/includes
+ /Users/phretor/
+ /Users/phretor/Documents/
+ /Users/phretor/Documents/
+ /Users/phretor/Projects/
+ /Users/phretor/emacs/
+ /Users/phretor/public_html/
+ /Users/phretor/bin/
+ /Users/phretor/etc/
+ /Users/phretor/Pictures/
+ /Users/phretor/Library/
+ /Users/phretor/Documents/*
+ /Users/phretor/Documents/*
+ /Users/phretor/Projects/*
+ /Users/phretor/emacs/*
+ /Users/phretor/public_html/*
+ /Users/phretor/bin/*
+ /Users/phretor/etc/*
+ /Users/phretor/Pictures/*
+ /Users/phretor/Library/*
+ /Users/phretor/.*
- *
defeat:~ phretor$ cat etc/backup/excludes
+ .DS_Store
+ .FBCLockFolder
- *
lap-fmaggi:~ phretor$ backup
Backup source: /Users/phretor/
Backup target: phretor@ecto:/Volumes/BackupDefeat/
SSH: /usr/bin/ssh
Password:
Password:
building file list ...
1 file to consider

sent 72 bytes  received 20 bytes  36.80 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
lap-fmaggi:~ phretor$