rsync shell script

Hi all,

I am interested in writing a shell script which will mount a network drive, rsync a local drive to the now attached network drive and then unmount the drive. I have a readynas600 attached to my home network. The readynas supports may different file network protocols including afp and smb.

Thanks in advance for your assistance

Vince

I'm not quite sure about the easiest way of mounting remote file systems via shell.

you could use the open command "open smb://remote.host/remoteshare"
mounts under /Volume/remoteshare

or you could use the mount_smbfs command "mkdir /tmp/remote ; mount_smbfs //user(E-Mail Removed)/remote/share /tmp/remote"
mounts under /tmp/remote

Once the device is mounted you can use the following rsync command;

rsync -a /local/path /Volumes/remoteshare

if you have used mount_smbfs you can use umount to unmount the filesystem "umount /tmp/remoteshare"

if you used open, then you need to use disktool to unmount. "disktool -e /Volumes/remoteshare"

hope this helps (some 4 years later!)