On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:49:47PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya cormac > > two synchronized copies??? am assuming that mean that if you erased > foo.txt on the master... it erases it on the other disk too???
Eh - no - the erasure on my laptop occured when I booted into windows, so there was no synchronising at that point. Besides I don't synchronise in real time, but rather use unison to rsync between my laptop and my desktops at home and at work. (hence the two copies) - I had synchronised before rebooting the laptop into windows > > - if you lost your files/data on the master... it wasn't > mirrored/synchronized to the other set .... hummm.... > - curious to see how/why you lost the data/files in the first place > - it should have erased it on the other set too depending on > failure mode As I explained in response to another poster, the problem occurred with windows overwriting the partition table in an extended partition. The data I had was the second partition in the extended partition and was totally unaffected except that I had to 'find' it again which I did using gpart. Having found the correct position of the partition I discovered it was totally unaffected. Thankfully - but as I said I wasnt overly worried about the data, just annoyed about the whole affair. > ....... > > - automated backup... > - use cron... > > - free backup scripts... > http://www.Linux-Backup.net/app.gwif.html Thanks, I'll look at these > > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > Cormac McGuinness muttered: > > > All my files/data were gone (I had two synchronised copies though, so I > > > wasnt really worried :) )
