Re: external harddrive w/rsync (+ssh)?

Thanks for your reply ...

Dances With Crows (danSPANceswithTRAPcrows@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
Marianne Promberger staggered into the Black Sun and said:
I'd like to be able to make backups using rsync to a local external
harddrive. About a year ago, without much research, I bought a LaCie
Ethernet disk mini. It seems I can get dropbear and rsync to it, but
it also seems a lot of work:

http://www.federated.com/~jim/edmini/index.html

? If you need a totally non-live full backup of something, you're not
booting from the main disk anyway, so why not just boot from System
Rescue CD (or whatever) and use the USB disk as a dumb storage device?

I don't understand. Are you talking about the computer from which I want
to make backups, or about the external HD? Do you refer to the external
HD as the "USB disk" and mean I should boot the laptop from a rescue CD?

Does anyone have recommendations for an external harddrive that (a) is
not too expensive, (b) has something above 200 GB, and _already runs_
rsync, and ssh, out of the box?

I don't know that anything does this, since LiveCDs now have so many
features.

I don't understand what this has to do with LiveCDs, but that may be
connected to my failure to understand the first part. The external HD
has no CD drive.

I've only ever used rsync via ssh to remote machines. I assume it
could be used without ssh, too, but I'm not sure about this.

Try it out:

mkdir ~/temp
rsync -av --delete-after ~/somedir ~/temp
touch ~/somedir/somefile
rsync -av --delete-after ~/somedir ~/temp

Ok, but this is just on the same drive? I meant to an external machine,
ideally on a network.

m.
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