Hi Avi! It doesn't have to be an SD card. At one point it was an external HDD. Indeed this system has 'saved my life' on a number of occasions when I've deleted a file by enthusiastic accident or managed to exile myself from my own Ubuntu login by messing around with the system. It does happen! ;-)
On 20/11/11 16:55, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Bea Groves wrote: > >> I wonder if someone can come up with a solution to a little problem? >> In the 'bad old days' when I used Windows there was a little program >> called 'Rapid Backup' that I used to monitor my My Documents folder >> on a continuous basis. When a file was written to or modified within >> the folder (or any subfolder) then it was immediately copied by Rapid >> Backup to an 8Gb SD card which I kept permanently plugged into the PC >> for the purpose. It was a really good system, and I'm looking for >> similar software in Ubuntu (I'm running Natty). > > I don't know of anything that does this, but I'm also not really sure > what the point is. I'd have thought that more useful would be a backup > taken every hour, say, so that you can easily revert human-error sorts > of problems. There's several tools for that sort of thing. > > The life expectancy of SD cards is such that I'd expect it to fail long > before your (presumably) spinning-platters primary disk if you're > writing the same data to both, so it's not particularly good protection > against hardware failure, either, except insofar as the chance of one > of the SD cards failing at the same time as the primary disk is still > relatively low. > -- Beatrix E. Groves BA Hons (Educ) LCGI MAPTT MIFL QTLS President, Institute for Learning (IfL) General Secretary, Association of Part-Time Tutors (APTT) <>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<> Email: beagro...@gmail.com Web: http://www.beagroves.net Blog: http://beagroves.tumblr.com <>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<> Random Quote of the Day (chosen by my computer) -------------> 'The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.' (Vic Gold) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
