I'm trying to back up my Macbook since I'm going to be traveling around for the next 2 weeks.
My plan is to use rsync and SSH keys to backup a bootable copy of the Snow Leopard Macbook to a MacMini at my house running Tiger. This way, my PC will be automatically backing up to the Mac Mini at home as I travel around.
I have set up a script to try to perform this, it looks like this :
#! /bin/bash
if (( `id -u` != 0 )); then
{ echo "Sorry must be root"; exit; }
fi;
ssh-add
ssh [email protected] "/usr/sbin/vsdbutil -d /Volumes/BackupDrive" /usr/local/bin/rsync -aNHAXxv --protect-args --exclude-from backup_excludes --fileflags --delete --force-change --rsync-path="/usr/local/bin/rsync" / [email protected]:/Volumes/BackupDrive >> ~/Library/Logs/rsync.log
ssh [email protected] "bless -folder /Volumes/BackupDrive/System/Library/CoreServices"
This script works great for the backup, but when I try to boot from it, it displays a grey Apple screen with a spinning flash wheel, and doesn't boot.
When I connect the hard disk directly to the machine and run this :
/usr/local/bin/rsync -aNHAXxv --protect-args --exclude-from backup_excludes --fileflags --delete --force-change --rsync-path="/usr/local/bin/rsync" / /Volumes/Rsync >> ~/Library/Logs/rsync-hd.log
sudo bless -folder /Volumes/Rsync/System/Library/CoreServices
It works fine, and boots from the drive.
Any ideas on how I could get this to work?
Thank you very much in advance for your help
Jay
