rsync has very good exclusion support, which can come in handy for files that you really don’t care about sending to another host. For example, lets say you wanted to create the /tmp directory on a remote node, but you didn’t want to copy any of the files over. You just wanted the directory to be there.
+ /tmp
- **/tmp/**
Put that into a file called, oh lets see /etc/rsync.exclude, and then call rsync with
rsync -auv –delete –exclude-from=/etc/rsync.exclude $SOURCE $DESTINATION
party on Garth.
I’m going to have a write up on this shortly, but just to give you a heads up. I’ve built a VMWare ESXi node with an old P4 (socket 478 baby) that I’ve connected to another P4 running OpenSolaris acting as an iscsi SAN with ZFS backed storage. So far, I’ve been really pleased with both ESXi and solaris iscsi target support, but I’ve been flat out blown away by ZFS. Watch this space.
damn. I got lazy and wouldn’t you know it, I got hacked. A guy calling himself KiLLer HaCk repainted all of my websites for me this morning around 7am. It was totally my fault, I had some boneheaded permissions on some files and he found them. He did have the kindness to spare the files and just
thrashed my index pages, so many thanks for that. I have a backup that is a couple of weeks old that I’m bringing back online and I’ll try to get most of the updates current as soon as I can.
You may notice that I’m not mad or anything like that, and for good reason. This person did very little damage (though I wish he had made backups) and he exposed a problem that could have been exploited by someone much more malicious. In the end, he did me a service and it only cost me a couple of
hours of my time. So, hang out. I’ll get everything back up and running and we’ll continue down this lovely yellow brick road shortly.
Update
I was able to talk to the guy that hit the website. Turns out it wasn’t me but someone else on my shared host that he was able to break in through. Then my shared host provider evidentlly didn’t have the tightest security in the world, so he hit everyone on the server. I feel a little better now 
