Hi Phil,
Phil Davis-5 wrote: > > A NAS device won't do it - at least not the ones I'm familiar with, but > I haven't looked at them since I bought one a couple of years ago. Maybe > they are smarter now. > [snip] > Jim Ault introduced me to StuffIt for automated backups (which I still > don't use effectively, but...) StuffIt lets you schedule automatic, > unattended backups of specific folders to FTP and .mac locations. Would > that do it for you? It would run on your computer at night or whenever > you tell it to. > Ah, this is the keyphrase that i was looking for: "unattended backups of specific folders to FTP" If these backups could be done using Rsync, then this will be a lot faster. :-D > If you want a separate piece of hardware to do the backup, I suppose you > could put a cheap PC into your network DMZ and copy files to its StuffIt > upload folder before you turn off your computer and go home at night. > Yes, that will do the job. By the way, thinking about the imaginary USB device that i described will require it to run some embedded operating system, right? An OS in a USB stick, just like this: http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=3 Many thanks for your answer and useful pointers ! alejandro -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-OT--A-Hardware-wish...-tp16133914p16145965.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
