On Thursday 02 October 2003 09:59 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
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.
Bruce, That sure makes it seem simple! If i use Samba/LinNeighborhood to connect the windows machine to the Linux router/firewall it looks like I will need to do the backup in two stages, 1) from the windows to a dir on Linux then chron that to the backup machine using your suggested script. From my first, very limited reading of Unison it looks like it would do that in a single step with the added benefit that dumb users could probably make limited changes as it has the GUI. If it will do all that without the addition of Samba then that makes Unison very attractive. Looks like I have a bit of reading left to do! Thanks again for the help. Richard