[geeks] Backup software (yeah, yeah, I know)

Sheldon T. Hall shel at artell.net
Thu Apr 9 16:08:36 CDT 2009


William Enestvedt writes ...

> Shel, if you're going to set up a relatively slow connection 
> *and* your
> source will give you SSH, how about rsync with compression? Then you
> could maybe script it to run from cron every so often. (And yes, you
> said Windows -- how about dropping Cygwin on the remote Windows PC?)

Yeah, I like that.  I do have cygwin on the machine, but it doesn't run all
the time.  I've never tried cron on it, but the Windows scheduler will run
scripts, I think.  If that's so, I can probably use that Windows batch job
to kick off a cygwin session and let that run a "real" script.

Sometimes, the $EXCREMENT we have to go through ... 

-Shel



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