[Breezy] Backups to USB Disk

[Ed Fletcher]

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David Hart wrote:
| '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'.)

Mark wrote:
| I agree with David,  I'm using unision (using the GUI, not command line)
| to keep 9Gb of data on my laptop in sync with my USB HDD.

Magnus Therning wrote:
| It might be worth looking at unison. I use it to synchronise quite a few
| things between different machines. It synchronises two dirs rather than
| mirroring one dir into another.

Many thanks guys.  Unison hadn't come up when I was searching Synaptic.
~ I've installed it along with the gtk interface.  I'll give it a try.

For anyone else who's thinking of trying unison, I've found an article
that gives a pretty good description of how to use it:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7712

There is also the unison home page:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html

Thanks again,
Ed
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