[gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Randy Westlund
I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my workspace, and random user files under my home directory across multiple machines. I'm using one server as the master copy, which makes daily incremental backups of my files to a separate disk with rsync. At the moment, I have my sync

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Randy Westlund rwest...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my workspace, and random user files under my home directory across multiple machines. I'm using one server as the master copy, which makes daily incremental

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 12:21:40PM -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my workspace, and random user files under my home directory across multiple machines. I'm using one server as the master copy, which makes daily incremental backups of my

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
As soon as you said svn I got the idea you want revisions of files you send to storage, which is a fine idea. Backups are fine, but if you have to work at the granularity of yesterday or maybe the day before it can become cumbersome. To my mind the first question to answer is how do you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 12:21:40 -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: What utilities do you guys use? Is there a better way to do this? It would be nice to move everything to the background, but I've already clobbered a few files by calling this in the wrong order net-misc/unison Think of it as a

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 12/2/2012 14:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 12:21:40 -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: What utilities do you guys use? Is there a better way to do this? It would be nice to move everything to the background, but I've already clobbered a few files by calling this in the wrong order

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Randy Westlund
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Dustin C. Hatch admiraln...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/2/2012 14:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 12:21:40 -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: What utilities do you guys use? Is there a better way to do this? It would be nice to move everything to the

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Joseph
Here is a good example on using rsync http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html I've modified the first one for 7-days incremental backup. -- Joseph On 12/02/12 12:21, Randy Westlund wrote: I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my workspace, and random user files under my