Yes, it is live thus provides an exact duplicate of the operating
environment. If you are looking just to do certain files, however, that
would take a bit of scripting to do. However, after a quick review through
Freshmeat.net, I stumbled upon a number of programs that might interest you:
- BackupPC : http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
- Dirvish : http://www.pegasys.ws/dirvish/
- Dsync : http://www.ayradyss.org/programs/current.html#dsync
- FauBackup : http://faubackup.sourceforge.net/
- GlasTree : http://www.igmus.org/code/
Hope these help on finding what you want to do...
-- M
-----Original Message-----
From: flalug@nks.net [mailto:flalug@nks.net]On Behalf Of Eben King
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:44 AM
To: flalug@nks.net
Subject: RE: [flalug] backup drive
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Michael Worsham wrote:
> You might want to look at running a software raid and doing mirroring
> between the drives, thus providing redundant support if something should
> happen.
A bit of downtime while I disconnect the old hda and move hdc to hda isn't
a problem; I was more concerned about the noise, heat, and wear on the
drive of a RAID setup. My hope is that by using the backup drive as
little as possible, it would be as close to new when the main drive dies.
If I could do mirroring, where I could only update the second copy a few
times a day and spin it down between those times, that would be OK. I
think all mirroring is live, though.
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