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| Apexing the Linux learning curve - Linux for Learners | |
| by Hamish Taylor | |
| Friday, 15 August 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 4 For my backups I use a nice little tool called "rsync". It was co-writen by Andrew Tridgell, an Australian and legend in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) world, as he also co-wrote the software which has evolved into Samba.Featured Whitepaper
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Not too long back Microsoft released a tool named SyncToy which does much the same thing. However, having a look at it's name gives you a bit of an indication of their opinion of it! I really don't want to be typing in the following command every time I want to make a backup: rsync -r -v --progress --stats --size-only "<source folder>" "<destination folder>", so what can I do? I use Add/Remove Applications and use the drop-down menu to select "All available Applications", then search for Grsync, which is a front-end application for rsync. I tick the box, click Apply and then wait for the install to finish. Grsync is a tiny application so this doesn't take very long. I then go to Applications, Internet and click on Grsync. I can't really go into all the settings but I will outline the basics. Please read onto page 4 to find out how Grsync works. |
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