[cumbria_lug] Making the leap...

Derek Kaye dezza at dezzanet.co.uk
Sun May 23 13:21:06 UTC 2010


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I'm not sure if my last message got out, so apologies if you receive
this twice.

On 23/05/10 12:54, Barry Drinkwater wrote:
> >
> >
> > Regarding Acronis Online Backup, this is used to backup photos, music,
> > documents etc. These are held on an external NTFS drive. Is it
> > possible for Ubuntu to use this disk? If so, I could just find another
> > FTP based online storage provider and use Linux FTP software.
> >
> > Any help/thoughts most welcome.
> >
> >
I've never used Acronis, but to sync files between my machines I use
Unison (search the Ubuntu software library). It appears that this can
also be used to sync two local directories (your external hard disk is
classed as a local directory) so this may be something you may wish to
take a look at.

Derek


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