jed wrote: > Don't spose I could get any advice/pointers from anyone here? see > below...
If you don't already have a webserver running, I wouldn't go with BackupPC for this scenario myself. I guess you're not running OS X 10.5? I like Time Machine for my OS X laptop backups myself. If you just want to copy a couple of dirs to another drive, I'd go with a simple (one line?) rsync script run by cron/launchd. Or rdiff-backup if I wanted to keep multiple backups around. But sure, you can use BackupPC too if you like. It probably just takes a little more time to setup. Nils Breunese. > 31/12 jed wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Is this app. purely for backup across networks to servers, or is it >> also perfectly fine for local backups of stipulated dirs? >> For starters I'm just wanting to regularly backup my Tbird/FF >> profiles >> to a separate hdd on the same Mac.. >> Can it deal with folders that contain data that's live and may be >> updating at the time of a backup? (hope that makes sense) >> >> I was going to start fiddling with all this but why reinvent the >> wheel?!? >> http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=bash+scripting+how-to&btnG=Search&meta= >> >> http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=crontab+os+x&btnG=Search&meta= >> >> or this may have worked better in practise than the above? >> http://rajeev.name/blog/2008/09/01/automated-osx-backups-with-launchd-and-rsync/ >> >> >> Any advice greatly appreciated :-) >> >> Seasons well wishes, >> Jed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
