On Thursday 02 October 2003 9:35 am, Richard wrote:
On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:19 am, John Andersen wrote:
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:53, Richard wrote:
I'm running SuSE 8.2 Pro with Shorewall on several machines in 4 different physical locations. I want to be able to admin from one location and backup a certain directory from two separate locations to a dedicated harddrive in a third location. The windows machines contains the one directory which needs to be backed up.
look into unison. We use it for that, and its smart enough not to re-transfer files that have not changed. Its on your suse cds, or go here http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Thanks John and Bruce. I'm now looking into both rsync and unison. I will use the whichever is the simplest to set up and run automatically/ transparently/securely to the users.
I've never used unison but rsync is pretty simple. A typical command for cron would be: rsync -auvzr -e ssh /path/to/dir/tobackup/ backupsite:/path/to/dir/backup/ where backup site is the domain/name of the computer to send the data to.
I have to remember the people using the system can barely use a computer and if something goes wrong they have to call me or some other Linux nut. Regards, Richard
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