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

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Patrick Giagnocavo writes ...
> William Enestvedt wrote:
> > 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?)
> > 
> 
> Actually you can use plink.exe and putty.exe - no need to install the
> full-blown Cygwin package.
> 
> There is also DeltaCopy: 
> http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp

Hey, I like that DeltaCopy thing!  Thanks for the pointer.

FWIW, we had a file transfer protocol like that in Crosstalk Mark 4, i.e. a
protocol that only sent the chages across the wire.  It was really the bee's
knees in 1984, when the best you could hope for was a 14.4 kbps modem....

-Shel