Re: backups, I find rsync to the perfect solution for me. Here's an excerpt from one of my backup scripts:
/usr/bin/rsync -vurltD --exclude-from=/home/roberts/.rsync/exclude /home/roberts /mnt/backup >>/home/roberts/backup.log 2>&1 On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > No, not ignored. But I may have left out that I wish to use Time Machine > for backups. Alas, I don't know if Apple is making TM open source yet. > > If so, I'd definitely consider a tiny Linux box. My use of a hosting > service has kept my Linux hacks up well enough so that admin overhead would > not be too great. > > It was interesting to watch the majority of Sun engineering and research > move to OSX. They grew weary of admin being so intrusive, and OSX provided > unix underneath. > > So I'm not being a fan boy, just lazy. And the Mac mini is a nifty box, and > used a lot at the complex, so I wouldn't mind figuring out how it works. > > Hmm. I wonder if google will ever make Linux easy to use and have a ton of > nifty software? > > ---- Owen > > > I am an iPad, resistance is futile! > > On Aug 2, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Our replies are only unhelpful when they are ignored. > > > > Which they will be -- you can't talk reason with the Mac-Enamored. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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