mherger wrote: > > Ultimately my intention is to mount and unmount this remote disk via > a > > command line on the second Pi, so that it can be part of the nightly > > backup script. One reason for this is because I found (with my > previous > > working setup, obviously) that the second Pi takes a very long time > to > > shut down if the remote disk is mounted, so I wanted to make sure it > was > > unmounted whenever it wasn't actively in use. > > I don't know how you "backup" your data. But if it's about syncing the > two discs, then I'd recommend you look into rsync. No need to mount, no > > need to set up a share or what not. Just use rsync over ssh to sync the > > two folders. > > -- > > Michael
Ah, that's useful. I do already use rsync, but I didn't realise I could use it without mounting the remote disk. I'll investigate that, thank you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113676 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
