Message: 4
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 20:03:31 +0100
From: "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <nils AT lemonbit DOT com>
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] automated backup of specific dirs to
	local hdd
To: "General list for user discussion,	questions and support"
	<backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
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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