On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:10:59 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Horses for courses, but if you are planning to keep your backup > > long-term, this could do a good job, provided you remember when you > > deleted that lost file from your live system :-) > > I'm not looking for long-term backups. I have other methods for that. > The whole point of a "hot backup" is to have another machine ready to go > if/when the main machine dies. That means a /home/<userid> on the > backup machine with all the files from the main machine.
Try net-misc/unison. I use it to keep the home directories, or at least the important parts of them, in sync between my desktop and laptop. You can include or exclude paths to copy from its config file. I run it manually, from a hot key so I've got in the habit of doing it often, but you can call it from cron. Alternatively, for more instant updates, you could look at net-p2p/syncthing. -- Neil Bothwick The cow is nothing but a machine that makes grass fit for us people to eat.
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