reverse rsync mistake?

Mark C. Miller mr.mcmiller at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 21:45:46 UTC 2009


On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:30:30 -0500, Alan McKay wrote:

> Ouch!  Probably the only way out is to restore from backups if you have
> them.
> 
> If not  you should look into a product called "backup pc" which is based
> on rsync.  Looks like Ubuntu has it
> 
> root at alan-ubuntu:~# apt-cache search backuppc backuppc -
> high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up PCs
> libfile-rsyncp-perl - A perl based implementation of an Rsync client
> libio-dirent-perl - Perl module for accessing dirent structs returned by
> readdir
> 
> It is pretty easy to set up and is automated after that.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV”
>          - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"

I'm not (a) a power user or (b) an enterprise; I keep myself straight on 
rsync by using the grsync utility ... it seems to be just a GUI 
interface, but it keeps me from making mistakes

FWIW

mcm



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Mark C. Miller, Indianapolis IN, USA





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