Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)

[Cory Papenfuss]

> - rsync
>
> Right now my desktop and my laptop are synchronized that way. I can
> even synchronize throught the network with ssh configured correctly.
>
> It's simple. It's flexible. And it works.
>
 	That's pretty much what I do for my important documents.  I 
haven't figured out an elegant way to have passwordless ssh via a cronjob, 
though.  I still use my dsa_key cache'd normal login to do it manually, 
though.

 	I suppose if I weren't so lazy I could try an ssh-equivalent 
"hosts.allow"... but so far the manual approach (along with a weekly 
complete system tarball) is OK.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss                                                        *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University                   *
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