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Using incron to autocommit changes in a folder
I found this excellent blog post giving a nice example of incron useage at http://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz/blog/using_incron_to_autoversion_a_directory Normally when I edit files in /etc, I am focused on achieving something now, and not on being able to undo it later. To this end I have written myself a script which will commit the contents of a directory…
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rdiff-backup script using sshfs for larger backups
We have had a few customers who have much more data to back up, and taking a copy of that every day uses a LOT of disk space and can be time consuming. The answer is rdiff-backup . It does incremental backups whenever you run it, only backing up the difference from the initial complete…
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Got Backups?
Backup your data. That’s something that’s repeated over and over and yet too many people don’t really take it to heart. If you’ve lost data in the past, I be that you’re backing up now like it’s a religion. If you’re not backing up, maybe you’ve never lost any data or maybe it’s just something…