Controlling servers (e.g. apache, samba)

[Derek Broughton]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> 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.

Of course it should - but it needs to have a full copy on each side to know
which files are changed, and I don't have a big enough USB stick to keep
all of ~/ on.
-- 
derek