[Breezy] Backups to USB Disk

[David Hart]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:00:36AM -0800, Ed Fletcher wrote:
> I've been doing this with Nautilus so far, but the filesystem is
> approaching one hundred and fifty gigs with most of the activity taking
> place in a subdir with about sixty gigs.  So slotting these in by hand
> is getting tedious.  Not to mention that it's getting easier for me to
> make a mistake and leave a file not copied.
> 
> What I was hoping to find was a command that would look for new files on
> each side and copy them to the other.  Hmmm . . . Maybe it's time I
> learned to write a script.

'Unison' should do what you want.  It is based on the rsync algorithm,
comes in a command line version for use in scripts and has a GTK
interface available.  (It's in 'universe'.)

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>