Backup local pc to remote server with rsync

#!/bin/bash

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## Important notes
##
## * Run script as root or sudo
## * home.server is defined in ~/.ssh/config. Sample ~/.ssh/config is attached.
## * modify /etc/hosts to map home.server to correct IP address on your network
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## * create an exclusion-list.txt file make sure the scripts point to its location correctly
## * script tested on Linux Mint
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# // see if home.server is available
echo -e "\n\n\t Testing if remote host is available. Please wait ..."

nc -z home.server 22 > /dev/null

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "\n\n\t Operation aborted!\n\t Remote PC 'home.server' is not available at the moment \n\n"
    exit $?
fi

# // copy files from local pc to home server
rsync -avP --exclude-from '/home/dunga/scripts/exclusion-list.txt' /home/dunga/scripts/ home.server:/home/dunga/scripts/
rsync -avP --exclude-from '/home/dunga/scripts/exclusion-list.txt' /home/dunga/dev/ home.server:/home/dunga/dev/
rsync -avP --exclude-from '/home/dunga/scripts/exclusion-list.txt' /home/dunga/Documents/data/ home.server:/home/dunga/data/
rsync -avP --exclude-from '/home/dunga/scripts/exclusion-list.txt' /home/dunga/Documents/misc home.server:/home/dunga/data/work
rsync -avP --exclude-from '/home/dunga/scripts/exclusion-list.txt' /home/dunga/Documents/.homebank home.server:/home/dunga/data/work

# // backup the whole system
rsync -aAXv --exclude={"/dev/","/proc/","/sys/","/tmp/","/run/","/mnt/","/media/","/lost+found","/home/"} /* home.server:/media/dunga/big_hdd/dunga/backup/pc01

config

protocol 2

## contents of
## ~/.ssh/config

Host home.server
	Hostname 192.168.1.20
	# Hostname example.com
	# GSSAPIAuthentication no
	User dunga
	Port 22
	IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

exclusion-list.txt

/media/
/dev/
/proc/
/sys/
/usr/
/srv/
/tmp/
/run/
/mnt/
/build/
/cdrom/
/lib/
/lib64/
/root/
/opt/
/sbin/
/home/
/lost+found
/home/*/.cache/
/home/*/.local/share/Trash/
/home/*/.gvfs/
/home/*/.aptitude/
/home/*/.bluefish/
/home/*/.cache/
/home/*/.dbus/
/home/*/.giteye/
/home/*/.gnome/
/home/*/.gnome2/
/home/*/.gnome2_private/
/home/*/.gnupg/
/home/*/.gstreamer-0.10/
/home/*/.hardinfo/
/home/*/.icons/
/home/*/.java/
/home/*/.kde/
/home/*/.lastpass/
/home/*/.linuxmint/
/home/*/.local/
/home/*/.macromedia/
/home/*/.mplayer/
/home/*/.mysql/
/home/*/.pki/
/home/*/.subversion/
/home/*/.thumbnails/
/home/*/.vagrant.d/
/home/*/backup/
/home/dunga/Downloads
/home/dunga/isomnt
/home/dunga/Calibre\ Library/*
/home/dunga/tmp
/home/dunga/VirtualBox\ VMs
/home/dunga/.VirtualBox
/home/dunga/.thumbnails
~/.ssh/authorized_keys
~/.ssh/id_rsa
~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
~/.ssh/known_hosts