On 02/18/2011 04:27 PM, Jeff Ross wrote:
On 02/18/11 14:14, Christ Schlacta wrote:
On 2/18/2011 05:49, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Is there a way for a user to run a job on the server?
In particular, I want to implement a 'one click' backup using
rsync. An icon on the desktop would do something (in a batch script
maybe or some canned program) that would run a job under their ID
that would rsync their home directory to a backup directory.
magic files.
In my experience, if you leave backups to users you're in big trouble
because it doesn't matter how easy you make the backup it isn't going
to get done.
Oh, I already have nightly rsync in place to backup the home shares; it
rsyncs the whole /home tree. But one very important user doesn't trust
this (my wife!), so on top of what I am doing every night, I want an
icon she can click on that would run a special backup just for her.
Give her something she can 'see' did something for her...
Since the home share is the user account (/home/user), I was thinking to
just create a .crontab or something similar that would then run the job
once and now. I would like to think there is something better than
creating /home/user/.corntab, and I suspect this will not really work
anyway.
DeltaCopy is what you are after:
http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp
I will look at this.
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