Re: Backup solutions wanted

You need to setup SSH key auth, and install rsync on both then run this:

rsync -az -e ssh /media/disk-2 user@fileserver:/media/sda1


> I'm looking to backup, or sync, two identical 1TB drives.
>
> One is in this pc at /media/disk-2
> The other in my file server at /media/sda1
>
> I have ssh installed on both machines and can manually copy stuff over,
> but I want it to happen automatically as a cron-job
>
> I've tried unison-gtk but cant get it to work ( crashes without error
> details ) and I'm not clever enough to write a script myself :(
>
> Does anyone know of a simple backup/sync app that works on ubuntu 8.04
> 64bit?
>
> cheers
> chris
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