I would suggest looking at one of two paths: 1) rdiff does incremental rsync based backups 2) unison does bi-directional syncing.
Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: % B. Gallagher wrote: % % > I do understand that the direction of technology flow seems to be into % > the use of external HDD's for back-up so maybe I'm beating a dead horse % > here. I bought an External HDD shell for $25 and intend to throw a 500 % > GB Seagate internal in there (right now it has that noisy 30 GB Maxtor, % > that I'm waiting to see die, till I get the money.) % > % > I'm talking about softRAID and a home user. I guess RAID 1 is a moot % > point, but what about RAID 0? Isn't there a performance boost or is % > this a lot of complexity for not much performance gain? This is % > practice, not theory, so its fair for me to ask. What's your experience? % % You don't want to use RAID of any stripe ( :-) ) with an external % drive. You want to copy files from the main disk to the external % drive. Google for "rsync backup" to get some ideas. The seminal % paper on the subject is Mike Rubel's. (2nd or 3rd in Google's list) % % There are some good turnkey backup systems based on rsync. I don't % have any specific recommendations but I'm sure others do. % % -- % Bob Miller K<bob> % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % _______________________________________________ % EUGLUG mailing list % euglug@euglug.org % http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug ----- John Sechrest . Helping people use . computers and the Internet . more effectively . . Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . http://www.peak.org/~sechrest _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
