[ubuntu-uk] Watch and backup folder

[Bea Groves]

Hi Avi!

It doesn't have to be an SD card. At one point it was an external HDD.
Indeed this system has 'saved my life' on a number of occasions when
I've deleted a file by enthusiastic accident or managed to exile myself
from my own Ubuntu login by messing around with the system. It does
happen! ;-)

On 20/11/11 16:55, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Bea Groves wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if someone can come up with a solution to a little problem?
>> In the 'bad old days' when I used Windows there was a little program
>> called 'Rapid Backup' that I used to monitor my My Documents folder
>> on a continuous basis. When a file was written to or modified within
>> the folder (or any subfolder) then it was immediately copied by Rapid
>> Backup to an 8Gb SD card which I kept permanently plugged into the PC
>> for the purpose. It was a really good system, and I'm looking for
>> similar software in Ubuntu (I'm running Natty).
> 
> I don't know of anything that does this, but I'm also not really sure
> what the point is. I'd have thought that more useful would be a backup
> taken every hour, say, so that you can easily revert human-error sorts
> of problems. There's several tools for that sort of thing.
> 
> The life expectancy of SD cards is such that I'd expect it to fail long
> before your (presumably) spinning-platters primary disk if you're
> writing the same data to both, so it's not particularly good protection
> against hardware failure, either, except insofar as the chance of one
> of the SD cards failing at the same time as the primary disk is still
> relatively low.
> 

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