<html><head></head><body><div>"back in the day" I hacked up something like this using rsync and cygwin to provide a hot copy of the autosave area of windows client machines to a Linux server. The client was a heavy document producer and all win systems were set to autosave every 5 minutes. I had the backup tool set to run every 5 plus one minutes with a custom MS Word launcher that started the clock on the backup tool. So every 5 minutes, word would autosave what they had open. One minute later it was synched to a remote machine. If a client system failed, they could log onto any other system in the building, run the restore process and launch MSWord and be where they left off less the max last 5 minutes. When the day ended, the logout would trigger a final sync and a collapse of the incrementals on the server.</div><div><br></div><div>I have no idea where that code went. Probably on a zip disk somewhere.</div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 13:00 -0500, DJ-Pfulio wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>Best, easier, how-to: <a href="https://www.kirya.net/articles/backups-using-rdiff-backup/">https://www.kirya.net/articles/backups-using-rdiff-backup/</a>
Use the "pull" method for greater security.
On 02/12/2016 12:18 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
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My sip server (running on an ARM board with SHDC card) died the other
day; the SHDC card failed in an unrecoverable way. Alas, I didn't have
a backup! Luckily I had my previous sip server around, and this one was
created relatively recently so I MOSTLY remembered what changes I had to
make so it only took me a day to recover. HOWEVER, I would like to
figure out a good way to backup the rest of my systems.
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