On 21 Apr 2008, at 19:28, Mike Lovell wrote:
Greg Warner wrote:
I have a dreamhost account that has 500gb+ of space to which I'd
like to
backup the contents of my "My Documents" folder on a windows machine.
Currently, I'm using the scripting features of WinSCP to do it. It
works
well, but the connection drops randomly at times (usually in the
middle of a
large file), it makes no attempt to automatically reconnect, and
when I
reconnect manually it doesn't really pick up where it left off.
(I'm not
sure if it will ever go back and finish the file).
I've also read of cwRsync as being a viable option.
Anybody have any experience with this?
Greg
<shameless plug> For backup, you should look at Mozy.com. You can
even get 2GB for free.</shamless plug>
Enough marketing though. For doing a back up to a remote location,
rsync is a great tool since it will only send over the differences
in files and can figure out where it left off in a backup. I would
install it with cygwin (mainly cause i do use cygwin occasionally)
and then set up a script to work through the windows 'scheduled
tasks' section of the control panel. That would be a somewhat simple
way of doing it.
Mozy++ (even on Mac)
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