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Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Fri May 15 06:06:13 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 19:41 -0400, Steven Vollom wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 May 2009 02:11:13 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Ignazio Palmisano wrote:
> > > I'm wondering if a simpler solution like cron + rsync would do the trick
> > > for Steven.
> >
> > I imagine.  I was just off into my own world of wishes :-)
> >
> > > The backup wouldn't be instantaneous but it could be set to
> > > update the backup like every couple of hours; I'm finding rsync very
> > > quick for updating only the changes to files, and it can be used locally
> > > or over the network.
> > >
> > > Now the problem is that I know nothing about using cron...
> >
> > Nothing to it.  Use kcron and it takes any difficulty out of the task.  I'd
> > create a bash script that does what you have already done in a terminal,
> > and I'd also invoke that script from /etc/network/if-up.d/ - then you get
> > synchronization every time your network comes up _and_ whenever cron runs
> > the script.

I thought kcron was missing in action?? Ric
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