rsync-invoke.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Invoke rsync directly, via SSH

if [ $# -ne 3 ]; then
  echo "Error: not enough arguments!"
  echo "Usage is: $0 r_src r_dest r_logfile"
  exit 2
fi

R_SRC=$1
R_DEST=$2
R_LOGFILE=$3

# Options:

R_OPTIONS="-rltgoDhv --delete-during --inplace --progress --log-file="${R_LOGFILE}

# Files to exclude:

R_EXCLUDE="--exclude vmware.log --exclude vmware-*.log --exclude @eaDir/ --exclude @eaDir --exclude Thumbs.db"

echo "+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------" | tee -a "${R_LOGFILE}"
echo "+ $(date): Copy $R_SRC to $R_DEST" | tee -a "${R_LOGFILE}"
echo "+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------" | tee -a "${R_LOGFILE}"
rsync ${R_OPTIONS} ${R_EXCLUDE} -e "ssh -T -c none -o Compression=no -x" ${R_SRC} ${R_DEST}
echo "+ $(date) Transfer completed" | tee -a "${R_LOGFILE}"
exit