Synchronize using Bash and Rsync on Mac OS X

November 16th, 2009, filed under General

Recently I’ve configured a RAID 1 setup on my home computer which consists of two 750GB hard drives. This setup will be used to synchronize and backup files that are stored on my Apple MacBook.

I’ve written a Bash script that will synchronize specific directories from my MacBook to my home computer.


Example of the script being executed

The script

This script sync.sh will be using two extra files (sync.lst and sync.exc) which are used to specify the directories and files that should and should not be synchronized.

More details can be found inside the .zip file:

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