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Backups, Part II

My sched­uled backup didn’t go so well, the other night. Appar­ently, Déjà Vu copied the folder struc­ture, but couldn’t copy the files.

Obvi­ously there is some kind of per­mis­sions issue here, but I’m won­der­ing if this is due to the fact that I’m copy­ing to a Win­dows PC… The app con­nects to the remote drive just fine, and I can man­u­ally copy files to it — I just can’t seem to get this to work, though.

I’ll have to do a little more research (leave a com­ment if you have an idea!)… or else, on to rsync.

UPDATE: Ethan sug­gests ChronoSync:

I tried to be a good geek. I tried to like rsync - lord knows, I tried to like rsync.
February 3, 2005
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  1. 1 Casey
    February 3, 2005 at 2:41 pm Reply to this comment

    Rsync is cool. You can get rsync style back­ups (ie fast and not waste­ful) with a nice user inter­face on top by using Back­upPC. I’ve used it for a couple com­put­ers or (at my last job) for 200 com­put­ers. It’s pretty nice.

    “http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/”:http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

    (Yeah - it has “PC” in the name)

  2. 2 Casey
    February 3, 2005 at 8:13 pm Reply to this comment

    Ethan also rec­om­mends IMAP mail. Dear God, listen to him. If you are using POP and keep­ing all your mail on one com­puter, stop! IMAP IMAP IMAP. Many hosts give you IMAP access, lots of disk space, and web-​based clients you can use when you are away from home. Take advantage.

  3. 3 Nedward
    February 4, 2005 at 10:12 am Reply to this comment

    I’ve been using IMAP since Suck­ahs was launched — but I am so ner­vous about back­ing shit up, that I POP every­thing to my local machine, just so I have a copy. This includes 2 Gmail accounts, as well.

    You trust every­thing to your web host?

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