[Ubuntu-US-CA] Looking for a Good Solution (data syncing)
Hi all. I am looking for a good solution for my brother. But first, the story... The latest round of viruses on his wifes computer has prepped him to try something different. He spent all night recently trying to clean her system and get it to boot. He knows Ubuntu enough as a user as I installed it as a dual boot on an older laptop of his. He jumps into Ubuntu from time to time. After showing him how to run ClamAV yesterday on his wifes drive and cleaning up all the viruses, he is convinced and ready to make the switch to Ubuntu. Here is his situation. He has three computers. He would like one box as a server and use the other two laptops. Sounds easy and I can do that no prob, but here is the tricky part. He has a bunch of data... He used to be a DJ so he has tons of music and as a photographer he also has about 60,000 worth of 35mm slides he has scanned in and is now on a hard drive. He wants to have this data backed up and synced at all times. Ubuntu One and Dropbox are not an option because of the large amount of data which he estimates to be about 900GB give or take. He would like this synced across three drives. One at work, one at home and one at my dads house. Thats his goal and Im not that technical so I though I would see if anyone on the list would have some good ideas for syncing such large amounts of data. Many thanks! Dave -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Looking for a Good Solution (data syncing)
Hey Dave, good to hear you. Have you considered using rsync? If you have, i'm not sure what the problem is (which could be my error), a small script should be able to do what you want, assuming all the drives are accessible from the Internet. Best of luck to you, Kevin http://fictionalphilosophy.org On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 08:57 -0700, Dave 3 Ubuntu wrote: Hi all. I am looking for a good solution for my brother. But first, the story... The latest round of viruses on his wifes computer has prepped him to try something different. He spent all night recently trying to clean her system and get it to boot. He knows Ubuntu enough as a user as I installed it as a dual boot on an older laptop of his. He jumps into Ubuntu from time to time. After showing him how to run ClamAV yesterday on his wifes drive and cleaning up all the viruses, he is convinced and ready to make the switch to Ubuntu. Here is his situation. He has three computers. He would like one box as a server and use the other two laptops. Sounds easy and I can do that no prob, but here is the tricky part. He has a bunch of data... He used to be a DJ so he has tons of music and as a photographer he also has about 60,000 worth of 35mm slides he has scanned in and is now on a hard drive. He wants to have this data backed up and synced at all times. Ubuntu One and Dropbox are not an option because of the large amount of data which he estimates to be about 900GB give or take. He would like this synced across three drives. One at work, one at home and one at my dads house. Thats his goal and Im not that technical so I though I would see if anyone on the list would have some good ideas for syncing such large amounts of data. Many thanks! Dave -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Looking for a Good Solution (data syncing)
If you decide to go the rsync route, here are the commands i used, i can explain it to you if you need it. This is the command that i used for backups: rsync -e ssh -varuzLP ~/Documents ~/torrents ~/src metta@192.168.1.8:/home/metta/backup/ /*use rsync to backup files */ and the command to generate security keys: /* create key pair so no password needed with ssh, turn off password auth in /etc/ssh/sshd_config*/ ssh-keygen -t dsa /* on source system, just hit enter @ prompts */ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub metta@192.168.1.8 /* dest machine */ -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Looking for a Good Solution (data syncing)
Thank you to both for the great info. This looks exactly like what I am looking for! Dave On 06/08/2012 09:26 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: The classic solution to this is rsync, which I find to be somewhat tricky but can get by using grsync (a GUI version) to set up. rsync is magic in that it only transfers differences. It does however take a while each time it's run to find what's changed and I haven't found a good way to skip that and say just push new stuff since I know the old stuff hasn't changed. This could be set up as a cron job to just happen in the background. The other method I sometimes use for this challenge is version control. I setup the master repository on my server and then use standard version control methods to keep my 2 desktop/laptop machines up to date whenever I get on them. There's a little extra work here since a user has to manually say add to the version control system then push the files, and remember to pull/update on the other machine. Some of the common version control system do have integration with Nautilus or Dolphin (The file managers) so you don't have to learn command line. Enjoy, Alex On 06/08/2012 09:47 AM, anon wrote: If you decide to go the rsync route, here are the commands i used, i can explain it to you if you need it. This is the command that i used for backups: rsync -e ssh -varuzLP ~/Documents ~/torrents ~/src metta@192.168.1.8:/home/metta/backup/ /*use rsync to backup files */ and the command to generate security keys: /* create key pair so no password needed with ssh, turn off password auth in /etc/ssh/sshd_config*/ ssh-keygen -t dsa /* on source system, just hit enter @ prompts */ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pubmetta@192.168.1.8 /* dest machine */ -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
