Re: making backup using rsync in home LAN

2005-08-24 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On 8/24/05, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I misunderstood you the first time. I see what you mean now. Just a > little clarification: my rsync server is my Debian Testing on a P4 > desktop. Backups works perfectly on this machine. I am trying to > implement a method with which the Testing d

Re: making backup using rsync in home LAN

2005-08-24 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Jiann-Ming Su_, on 24/08/05 13:15,typed: > On 8/24/05, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>As I said, the laptop is not always on so most of the backups will be >>skipped. To avoid that, I am looking for a script to call on the laptop. >>A user can just call that script and a backup

Re: making backup using rsync in home LAN

2005-08-24 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On 8/24/05, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I said, the laptop is not always on so most of the backups will be > skipped. To avoid that, I am looking for a script to call on the laptop. > A user can just call that script and a backup will be done on the backup > server (my Testing box). >

Re: making backup using rsync in home LAN

2005-08-24 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Jiann-Ming Su_, on 24/08/05 12:04,typed: > > You may want to take a look at > http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ > as well. Right, I will. Thanks. > > Mount the NTFS partition and back it up when you back up the linux > /home partition? > As I said, the laptop

Re: making backup using rsync in home LAN

2005-08-24 Thread Gautam Bakshi
On 8/24/05, Jiann-Ming Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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

Re: making backup using rsync in home LAN

2005-08-24 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
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/

FW: making backup using rsync in home LAN

2005-08-23 Thread David Christensen
H. S. wrote: > ... suggest how to backup the laptop data from it's Windows (NTFS) > paritition. ... I use Cygwin and a Perl script that uses ntbackup to backup C:\Documents and Settings to a second hard drive. I then run another Perl script on my Debian 3.1 backup server which copies out the back

making backup using rsync in home LAN

2005-08-23 Thread H. S.
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. My wife uses a laptop which has Debian Unstable and W