On 8/23/05, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I backup my data on my home machine using a rsync script > (http://www.tux.org/~tbr/rsync/rsynchowto.html website was extremely > helpful). The machine runs Debian Testing, 2.6.11 kernel. My OS is on > /dev/hda and backups are done on /dev/hdb. >
You may want to take a look at http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ as well. > > It would probably entail installing Samba. Then there would probably be > a rsync client on Windows on the laptop. Then the periodicity of the > backups would need to be sorted out since the laptop is not always on > and not always on my home network -- which probably means a cron job may > not be enough and a little scrilpt may be needed on the laptop. It's > backups are to reside on /dev/hdb on my Testing computer. Can anyone > share his/her experiences regarding this? > Mount the NTFS partition and back it up when you back up the linux /home partition? -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman
