Syncing files on a home network

[wenzhuo at zhmail.com]

Quoting Cliff Hall <12barz at gmail.com>:

> Thanks to those who responded.  It looks like Unison, like rsync, requires
> that software be running on both ends.  This will work great for my music
> server, but not for the network drive, which is not a computer and can't
> load and run programs.  If anything comes to any of you as a solution for
> this while you're daydreaming in the shower or something, let me know.

It seems what you want to do is to backup to a network drive.  
rdiff-backup is the ideal tool for incremental backups.

   $ aptitude show rdiff-backup

You need mount the network drive to your local filesystem.

wenzhuo