Rsync - Backup specific files & folders to specific drives

[vanhoopstallion]

hello,

I use Rsync to transfer my downloads onto a NAS drive once complete via the crontab. I'd like to make crontab transfer specific music and video files with their folders to the corresponding video or music folder on the NAS. The code below works well if only the *.mkv included file exists in the folder, if it's mixed then it wont transfer.

thanks

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rsync -a --include='*.mkv' --exclude='*' --include='*/' /home/name/downloads/ /MyNas/video/

[WharfRat]

Your includes and excludes are confusing - they shouldn't be needed.

If there are other file types in /home/name/downloads/ then just exclude those types in a brace expansion e.g. --exclude={torrents,.cache,.mozilla*,.googleearth}

You can test the line using the -n option or leaving off the destination in which case the output will go to the terminal.

Good luck

[mintybits]

Is it that you have folders and files with the same root name and you want to copy all to /myNAS/Video?
Eg:

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Abba the movie.mkv
Abba the movie/
    castlist
    other-stuff

A way to do this might be:

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cd Downloads
ls *.mkv | rev | cut -d "." -f2- | rev | while read line; do echo "$line.mkv" | rsync -va --files-from=- . /myNAS/video/ ; rsync -va "$line" /myNAS/video/; done

[UltramaticOrange]

And for the casual reader not already familiar with rsync, you should know that it is VERY handy for securely copying files between systems as well.

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rsync -rave "ssh" /home/$(whoami) myOtherUser@myOtherComputer:/mnt/backups

Strictly speaking, -e and "ssh" shouldn't be needed here, but handy if you want to specify an external SSH key.