jed wrote:

> Don't spose I could get any advice/pointers from anyone here?  see  
> below...

If you don't already have a webserver running, I wouldn't go with  
BackupPC for this scenario myself. I guess you're not running OS X  
10.5? I like Time Machine for my OS X laptop backups myself. If you  
just want to copy a couple of dirs to another drive, I'd go with a  
simple (one line?) rsync script run by cron/launchd. Or rdiff-backup  
if I wanted to keep multiple backups around.

But sure, you can use BackupPC too if you like. It probably just takes  
a little more time to setup.

Nils Breunese.

> 31/12 jed wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Is this app. purely for backup across networks to servers, or is it
>> also perfectly fine for local backups of stipulated dirs?
>> For starters I'm just wanting to regularly backup my Tbird/FF  
>> profiles
>> to a separate hdd on the same Mac..
>> Can it deal with folders that contain data that's live and may be
>> updating at the time of a backup? (hope that makes sense)
>>
>> I was going to start fiddling with all this but why reinvent the  
>> wheel?!?
>> http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=bash+scripting+how-to&btnG=Search&meta=
>>
>> http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=crontab+os+x&btnG=Search&meta=
>>
>> or this may have worked better in practise than the above?
>> http://rajeev.name/blog/2008/09/01/automated-osx-backups-with-launchd-and-rsync/
>>
>>
>> Any advice greatly appreciated  :-)
>>
>> Seasons well wishes,
>> Jed

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