https://royalcontinentalhotels.com/rcs/about-us/

cool that you found a solution.
Feel free to send pull requests for the PUBS project :-)

Have a nice day,
Chris

PS: Thanks for sharing.

Sorted it for now with the old script.

I commented out the validation of source directories as this was causing issues with the source I entered into the exec.sh (user@remotelocation.com/folder)

I also had to configure pre shared keys for SSH auto login.

As my remote system uses a non standard port for SSH I altered the rsync line in script to:

rsync -axPv –exclude-from ${EXCLUDE_FILE} ${link_dest} –rsh=’ssh -p19′ ${source_directories_string} ${current_bak_dest_dir}

Prior to this I had tried mounting the remote directory locally as you suggested, this did work but the speed was incredibly slow compared to the way I have now achieved it.

I will try the new script soon too.

Tnank you

thanks for your comment.

First I would like to recommend you the new version hosted on Github:
https://github.com/cwilldev/PUBS

No, I did not consider remote backups, yet.
But on a gut level: Did you try already to mount the remote location into your local system? In this case it should not matter if it’s remote or not.
Or you could run the backup script on the remote server, and moving the created backup via rsync manually to you system.

I have a situation where the data to backup is on a remote machine so I want to rsync it from a remote location. Is there a way to achieve this using your script?

Thank you