etc/tiny/rsync-retry.sh

   1 #!/bin/bash
   2
   3 ### ABOUT
   4 ### Runs rsync, retrying on errors up to a maximum number of tries.
   5 ### Simply edit the rsync line in the script to whatever parameters you need.
   6
   7 # Trap interrupts and exit instead of continuing the loop
   8 trap "echo Exited!; exit;" SIGINT SIGTERM
   9
  10 MAX_RETRIES=50
  11 i=0
  12
  13 # Set the initial return value to failure
  14 false
  15
  16 while [ $? -ne 0 -a $i -lt $MAX_RETRIES ]
  17 do
  18  i=$(($i+1))
  19  rsync -avz --progress --partial -e "ssh -i /home/youngian/my_ssh_key" /mnt/storage/duplicity_backups backupuser@backup.dreamhost.com:.
  20 done
  21
  22 if [ $i -eq $MAX_RETRIES ]
  23 then
  24   echo "Hit maximum number of retries, giving up."
  25 fi