I really need to set up a proper backup system. There are quite honestly some really good excuses for why I haven’t done so already, but at the end of the day none of those are going to help if a harddrive crashes and I lose every bit of work I’ve done so far this academic year. Moving my main “home” machine to running Debian back in September, should have made it a bit easier to do this, since I imagine that rsync is going to be the answer to all my worries.
In true procrastinatory style, I went and had a look around the web a bit and found a few links. I’ve now had the realisation that I really need to revise Agents now as the exam is tomorrow, so I’m going to put this off again, but as a reminder to myself and potentially a help to anyone else also needing to set up a proper backup system, here are some links:
- The Rsync homepage and the README
- A tutorial on snapshot-style backups
- BackupPC looks like a potentially good way of doing things if we want to have a consistent backup method across the Linux boxen and the Windows machines
- drsync — the documentation looks a little cryptic, but it might be useful for mirroring especially between the uni laptop and the home computer
- Reminder tutorial on rsync and SSH
- Another nice-looking rsync tutorial
- rsync and stunnel
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February 2nd, 2005 at 3:39 PM
I’ve been looking at Unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Works in both directions.
April 10th, 2005 at 2:19 AM
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