Backup Options

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Jun 9 19:10:25 UTC 2008


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Srikanth Konjarla wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I use Fedora on my laptop which is primarily for business purposes. 
>> So, i like to get the data backup from laptop to home desktop machine 
>> (over ssh) and trying to find an easy and reliable backup tool. I have 
>> tried pybackpack with rdiff-backup combination but i found it not very 
>> reliable with at least ssh option.
>>
>> Any recommendations?
>>
> You may want to think about rsync - it is easy to configure to use ssh 
> to sync files.
> 
If you are keeping a complete copy of the laptop or selected 
subdirectories, I agree, this is a reliable solution, which you can run 
on demand or just prior to shutdown.

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