Hey Dave, good to hear you. Have you considered using rsync?
If you have, i'm not sure what the problem is (which could be my error), a small script should be able to do what you want, assuming all the drives are accessible from the Internet. Best of luck to you, Kevin http://fictionalphilosophy.org On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 08:57 -0700, Dave <3 Ubuntu wrote: > Hi all. I am looking for a good solution for my brother. But first, the > story... > > The latest round of viruses on his wifes computer has prepped him to try > something different. He spent all night recently trying to clean her > system and get it to boot. He knows Ubuntu enough as a user as I > installed it as a dual boot on an older laptop of his. He jumps into > Ubuntu from time to time. After showing him how to run ClamAV yesterday > on his wifes drive and cleaning up all the viruses, he is convinced and > ready to make the switch to Ubuntu. > > Here is his situation. He has three computers. He would like one box as > a server and use the other two laptops. Sounds easy and I can do that no > prob, but here is the tricky part. He has a bunch of data... He used to > be a DJ so he has tons of music and as a photographer he also has about > 60,000 worth of 35mm slides he has scanned in and is now on a hard > drive. He wants to have this data backed up and synced at all times. > Ubuntu One and Dropbox are not an option because of the large amount of > data which he estimates to be about 900GB give or take. He would like > this synced across three drives. One at work, one at home and one at my > dads house. Thats his goal and Im not that technical so I though I would > see if anyone on the list would have some good ideas for syncing such > large amounts of data. > > Many thanks! Dave > -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
