Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rsync rules question

2020-10-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 20:48:04 +0100, antlists wrote: > On 14/10/2020 20:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Alternatively, for more instant updates, you could look at > > net-p2p/syncthing. > > Not sure what you use for it, but there are mirrored filesystems that > run over a network. So the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rsync rules question

2020-10-14 Thread Michael Jones
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 2:48 PM antlists wrote: > On 14/10/2020 20:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Alternatively, for more instant updates, you could look at > > net-p2p/syncthing. > > Not sure what you use for it, but there are mirrored filesystems that > run over a network. So the two systems

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rsync rules question

2020-10-14 Thread antlists
On 14/10/2020 20:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: Alternatively, for more instant updates, you could look at net-p2p/syncthing. Not sure what you use for it, but there are mirrored filesystems that run over a network. So the two systems will update in sync if they're both switched on, or will defer

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rsync rules question

2020-10-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:10:59 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Horses for courses, but if you are planning to keep your backup > > long-term, this could do a good job, provided you remember when you > > deleted that lost file from your live system :-) > > I'm not looking for long-term backups.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rsync rules question

2020-10-14 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 06:51:39PM +0100, antlists wrote > > Horses for courses, but if you are planning to keep your backup > long-term, this could do a good job, provided you remember when you > deleted that lost file from your live system :-) I'm not looking for long-term backups. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rsync rules question

2020-10-14 Thread antlists
On 14/10/2020 14:58, Walter Dnes wrote: I'd like to keep my "hot backup" machine more up-to-date. The most important directory is my home directory. So far, I've been doing occasional tarballs of my home directory and pushing them over. I exclude some directories for "reasons". I'd like to

[gentoo-user] [OT] rsync rules question

2020-10-14 Thread Walter Dnes
I'd like to keep my "hot backup" machine more up-to-date. The most important directory is my home directory. So far, I've been doing occasional tarballs of my home directory and pushing them over. I exclude some directories for "reasons". I'd like to switch to rsync and run it more often.