Here's a handy script to run rsync from the command-line that prompts for source and destination paths;

#! /usr/bin/php

<?php
## Control CLI parameters
if (($argv[1]=="") OR ($argv[2]=="")) {
echo "Options not specified.\r\n";
echo "Program Usage: ";
echo $argv[0]." <i.e.: /source/path> <i.e.: /destination/path>\r\n\r\n";
exit;
}else{
$srcpath=$argv[1];
$dstpath=$argv[2];
}

$starttime=date('G:i:s', strtotime('now'));

echo "Starting rsync...\r\n";
$retval=system("sudo rsync -avrl --delete ".$srcpath." ".$dstpath, $retval);
if (!$retval==false) {
echo "Backup from ".$srcpath." to ".$dstpath." is complete!\r\n\r\n";
}else{
echo "Backup from ".$srcpath." to ".$dstpath." FAILED!\r\n\r\n";
}

$endtime=date('G:i:s',strtotime('now'));


echo "\r\nStart time - ".$starttime."\r\n";
echo "End time - ".$endtime."\r\n\r\n";
echo "Script complete!\r\n";

?>

Note:

• The sudo command in the system call allows the script to be used to sync root user files. This can be removed if that behavior is not desired.
• The script also utilizes the --delete feature of rsync to remove files in the destination that do not exist in the source. Evaluate that behavior for your application as well.

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