[Wylug-discuss] server based /home

[Gary Stainburn]

On Monday 15 March 2004 11:53 am, James Holden (WYLUG) wrote:
> OK, my 2p worth....
>
> I work on my laptop, and keep all my work there on the local disk.
>
> Once an hour it rsync's to another machine on the LAN, which in turn
> rsync's every night to another box somewhere else.
>
> Hourly backups from the laptop, nightly off-site backups from the server.
>
> Rsync rocks!

I tried rsync a couple of times a while back but never got it working right -
probably my fault.

How I work now is a combination of 'tar zcvf' and scp.  The downside is the
additional local disk space requirement. The upside is that restores can be
done locally.

>
> James
>
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