[Breezy] Backups to USB Disk

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:08:15AM -0800, Ed Fletcher wrote:
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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'.)
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>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.
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>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.
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>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

Unison comes with good documentation:

 file:///usr/share/doc/unison/unison-manual.txt.gz

/M

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