I initially used git to sync my .vimrc file and my own ebuild repo, but it is not cost-efficient as I actually pay little attention to the tracking commit things. So I ended up using rsync to synchronize my linux files to my dreamhost account.

Preparation

Assuming you’ve already had a dreamhost account with shell access priviledge (any other hosts with shell access will be fine as well). And you’re going to backup the following files on your system to the dreamhost server:

/home/yourname/.aliasrc
/home/yourname/.bashrc
/home/yourname/.config/openbox/
/home/yourname/files/
/home/yourname/.vimrc
/home/yourname/.vim/
/home/yourname/.xinitrc
/home/yourname/.Xdefaults
/etc/fstab
/etc/fonts/local.conf
/etc/make.conf
/etc/portage/package.*
/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Ofc you dont want others to see your loveletter.txt and bankaccount.txt under files directory, so the two files should be excluded from synchronization.

Put the following two lines into a textfile (such as ~/.rsync/excludes) which we’ll use it later:

/home/yourname/files/loveletter.txt
/home/yourname/files/bankaccount.txt

Howto

I wrote this script for sync:

#!/bin/bash

includes="
/home/yourname/.aliasrc
/home/yourname/.bashrc
/home/yourname/.config/openbox/
/home/yourname/files/
/home/yourname/.vimrc
/home/yourname/.vim/
/home/yourname/.xinitrc
/home/yourname/.Xdefaults
/etc/fstab
/etc/fonts/local.conf
/etc/make.conf
/etc/portage/package.*
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
"

rsync -avzuCRpP --delete --delete-excluded $includes --exclude-from "/home/yourname/.rsync/excludes" -e ssh USERNAME@HOSTNAME:linux/

The $includes contains the files you want to sync, * wildcard supported, and to exclude the private files you’ll need the --exclude-from paramater.

USERNAME@HOSTNAME is your dreamhost account and hostname, :linux/ means sync the files to the linux directory under your dreamhost home directory.

-a parameter makes sure your files will be synchronized recursively.

-C is used for ignoring files like .git, .svn, *.bak and so on, ofc we dont want to waste time on transfering these useless things.

-R is needed for transfering hierarchically, this means I can sync my /etc/make.conf file right under linux/etc/ directory on my dreamhost.

-P parameter is quite useful when the transaction is interrupted, you can continue the process somewhen later.

Now you can chmod +x scriptname before you run it first time.

Fetch the backup files from your dreamhost is easy, just to run:

rsync -e ssh -av USERNAME@HOSTNAME:linux/ backup/

The files will be transfered to the backup directory on the local computer.

You may need the Password-less SSH Login if you want to add this script to the cron job.

I use this cron job to make sure the script run automatically at 23:30 p.m. on every Monday and Thursday.

30 23 * * 1,4   punkid   sh /home/punkid/scripts/autobackup.sh

• DH主机名: montty (假设)
• DH用户名: hades (需开通shell操作权限)
• 本地Git repo: /home/hades/software

1.在DH主机上安装Git

ssh登陆DH主机，在主目录下进行以下操作安装Git

$ mkdir src && cd src/
$ wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.4.4.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf git-1.5.4.4.tar.gz
$ cd git-1.5.4.4
$ ./configure --prefix=/home/hades/ NO_CURL=1 NO_MMAP=1
$ make && make install

然后把生成的/home/hades/bin添加到系统环境中

$ echo "export PATH=/home/hades/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc

2.从本地拷贝一个空(bare)的repo出来

$ cd /home/hades
$ git-clone --bare software software.git
$ cd software.git/
$ git --bare update-server-info
$ chmod a+x hooks/post-update
$ touch git-daemon-export-ok

3.把这个software.git上传到DH主机上

$ scp -r software.git hades@montty.dreamhost.com:/example.com/path/software.git

4.回到本地的原始Git repo目录，提交改变到DH主机的repo上

$ git-push ssh://hades@montty.dreamhost.com/home/hades/example.com/path/software.git

如果你嫌反复输入这么长的操作命令的话

$ git remote add git-software \
  ssh://hades@montty.dreamhost.com/home/hades/example.com/path/software.git

以后你只需要输入git-push git-software就行了

5.查看DH主机的repo

$ git-clone http://example.com/path/software.git

确认下DH主机上的repo是否已成功导入本地repo的内容及更新。

参考:

• Hosting a git repository on dreamhost
• Git User’s Manual : Setting up a public repository

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