On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:10:25PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Srikanth Konjarla wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> I use Fedora on my laptop which is primarily for business purposes. So, i >>> like to get the data backup from laptop to home desktop machine (over >>> ssh) and trying to find an easy and reliable backup tool. I have tried >>> pybackpack with rdiff-backup combination but i found it not very reliable >>> with at least ssh option. >>> >>> Any recommendations? >>> >> You may want to think about rsync - it is easy to configure to use ssh to >> sync files. >> > If you are keeping a complete copy of the laptop or selected > subdirectories, I agree, this is a reliable solution, which you can run on > demand or just prior to shutdown. Dirvish is an actively-maintained Perl script that runs on top of rsync, using hard links to reduce the size of successive generations of copies. It will do copies across a network using ssh. I've been using dirvish for three years with excellent results. http://www.dirvish.org/ Good luck. -- Jorge Luis <lists@xxxxxxxx> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
