I have found this regular rsync aproach inadequate with constant babysitting sideffects.
These are desktops, so network filesystem would resolve this and more. On laptops, I would recommend to use something like NextCloud synchronizing to a master location. Those two options do work better for dymanic content like data, docs, .... in your home dir. -T On Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 3:15 AM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Smith, Cathy wrote: > > > Just as a suggestion, get your backup running manually first before > > running from cron. That reduces the time for troubleshooting. Understand > > what your rsync is doing. Validate that your backup on the destination is > > good. If you are going to use ssh keys, get that tested. Then put > > everything in cron. It's a lot easier to figure out what is going wrong > > that way. > > Backups have run daily with dirvish for years. My current need is to > have > the new desktop sychronized with the old one until it can replace the old > one. > > Thanks, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
