Auto backup changed files to external drive?

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rsync would seem like the obvious choice.
 

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Ah, wait - do you mean you want it to immediately detect when the file is changed and back it up there and then? A bit like Time Machine does on OS X with fsevents?

(My previous answer assumes that you merely wanted to exclude files that had not changed since the last backup, as part of a regularly scheduled backup job.)
 
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Have you thought about backing up on the Internet? I have a free account with Spideroak https://spideroak.com/ with a 2gig limit, i also back up manually to an external hard drive.
 
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dave r said:
Have you thought about backing up on the Internet? I have a free account with Spideroak https://spideroak.com/ with a 2gig limit, i also back up manually to an external hard drive.


Internet backups are something I've thought about from time to time, but I'm old fashioned about data: like to have it in my possession where I know it is safe(r). I'm looking at replacing my external hard drive right now which is part of the reason I started the thread.

BTW Dave - how you getting on with that new base unit of yours?
 

nigelnorris

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terryd said:
robocopy is good comes with a gui to help you create a batch file if needed
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.11.utilityspotlight.aspx

chuck in the startup folder or just double click now and again

If you want some thing to monitor files in real time not sure though
iirc the problem with robocopy is that it's a synchronisation tool not a backup tool - it creates a mirror. So if you want to recover a broken file you're up the swanee because the mirror also contains the same broken version of the file.
 
nigelnorris said:
iirc the problem with robocopy is that it's a synchronisation tool not a backup tool - it creates a mirror. So if you want to recover a broken file you're up the swanee because the mirror also contains the same broken version of the file.

Yes that is correct. I use it in work for backups to external drive but just have a batch file to rename the folders

Code:
E:
cd NEWSERVER-BACKUPSrobocopy
rmdir /Q /S r7_weekly4
rename r7_weekly3 r7_weekly4
rename r7_weekly2 r7_weekly3
rename r7_weekly r7_weekly2
mkdir r7_weekly
robocopy "E:NEWSERVER-BACKUPSR7" "E:NEWSERVER-BACKUPSrobocopyr7_weekly" /NP /R:10 /W:30 /E /V /log:"C:r7_weekly_backup.log"
that is after the initial backup which is a full backup
Of course this is nothing like what he has asked for :eek:
 

nigelnorris

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Could also use robocopy and schedule the Windows [or any other freebie] backup utility to make incremental backups of the folder on the external drive. Would save having to remember to run the batch file, and compress to save space.
 
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beanzontoast said:
Internet backups are something I've thought about from time to time, but I'm old fashioned about data: like to have it in my possession where I know it is safe(r). I'm looking at replacing my external hard drive right now which is part of the reason I started the thread.

BTW Dave - how you getting on with that new base unit of yours?

;) I unpacked it, connected it up, installed Ubuntu and started using it, thats it, no problems or dramas it worked straight out of the box. The only thing I did was to install the wrong operating system, 32 bit instead of 64 bit, silly mistake on my part, I updated it when I realised what I had done.
 
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