[NCLUG] Data Security Blanket

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 08:07:46AM -0800, Kirk Rheinlander wrote:
> On my laptop Win2k partition, I run a background program called Second 
> Copy, that, at a specified period (in my case, every 10 minutes) and 
> reviews my data directories for changes, and then syncs the directories to 
> a second (in this case, a PCMCIA hard disk) drive. In this way, I have 
> real-time backup of all my data files, and when I go through airports, I 
> pull the PCMCIA card out, so that if the laptop is stolen, the really 
> valuable stuff - the data - is with me.

rsync + a small shell script should do the trick nicely.

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