Cron is your friend. I've got mine set up to do the incremental backup once per night, but you could easily also hook it up to an internet connection/disconnection script.
--Doug On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > Good stuff! But one catch: I want to set this up for the family to use. TM > gives us automatic backups whenever we connect to the network, so vastly > reduces the chance of data loss. > > But I'm also considering backup to the internet .. my Joyent web hosting > service or possibly s3 or gs. Big problem there is that our up speed is > miserable, around 800Kb. It might be that the best upgrade I could make > would be to get a premium broadband acct of some sort. Comcast claims to be > upgrading their broadband. > > I'd like to push more of my data to the net anyway. Email is solved: imap. > Website ditto -- Joyent. Important source files are svn on Joyent or > Google. I suppose I could use desktop net disks of various sorts to move a > bunch of my presentations etc to the net. > > That was part of my research last week of server-to-server speeds. Wow! I > can easily backup my entire web hosting account to both amazon and google at > very nice speeds indeed. > > -- Owen > > > On Aug 2, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > > Duh, good catch! I've filled up the root partition that way before too. > > > > --Doug > > > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Douglas Roberts <d...@parrot-farm.net> > wrote: > > > Re: backups, I find rsync to the perfect solution for me. Here's an > excerpt > > > from one of my backup scripts: > > > > > > /usr/bin/rsync -vurltD --exclude-from=/home/roberts/.rsync/exclude > > > /home/roberts /mnt/backup >>/home/roberts/backup.log 2>&1 > > > > > > > Here's part of mine: > > > > if mount | grep -s $DEST >/dev/null 2>&1 > > then > > rsync -ax --delete --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=.gvfs > $SRC/ $DEST/ > > else > > echo destination $DEST is not mounted > > fi > > > > first thing the original did was fill the root file system by > > rsync'ing into a mount point with nothing mounted on it. > > > > I'm backing up the root these days, too, because it was such a pain to > > recover the install state two weeks ago. Now the backup is configured > > to replace the laptop drive in the time it takes to swap drives. > > > > You could always take a MacMini and install Ubuntu on it. Anybody > > know in what format TimeMachine stores your stuff? > > > > -- rec -- > > > > >
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