Controlling servers (e.g. apache, samba)

[Matthew Flaschen]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
> Yes it does just take a few hours - it's the recent work that is the
> problem.  Now, that's not really a problem for me with respect to the root
> partition anyway, because there's no user modified data on that partition
> except what's in /etc - and even that is largely installed from packages or
> debconf, but I still have qualms about having / on lvm.
>> Personally I have a script in cron.hourly that runs rsync, copying from
>> my /home to a USB hard drive. 
> 
> Interesting.  I wouldn't want to copy all of /home/$USER - that's got GBs of
> essentially static content, too, but everything that's routinely modified
> is going to be under ~/Desktop/

The rsync algorithm should only copy changed files.

Matthew Flaschen

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