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> but I'll be surprised if the backup software properly handles the potential errors well. YMMV but I've found rsync to handle this kind of fuckery well.
by dogorman 5y ago
> but I'll be surprised if the backup software properly handles the potential errors well.
YMMV but I've found rsync to handle this kind of fuckery well.
- Datagenerator 5y agoOr rclone if you need even faster parallel synchronization
- blooalien 5y agoI've used both of these tools with great success in the past. Infinitely scriptable in your favorite scripting language, being just simple command-line tools, too. Great for automation of backups. Re; the issue of external drives spinning down causing a remount at a different location, I've never had that exact experience before, but I have had drives spin down more frequently than I'd like, so my answer to that was to just disable the spindown entirely. (There's articles about various ways to do that easily findable on your favorite search engine if you're curious how to do it.) Once disabled, if I find that I still want some form of spin-down for the drive, I install one of the handy available daemons that allows a much more easily configurable form of this feature, and then set a longer delay than the drive's default. (This can also be done by configuring the drive itself to a longer delay, but it's more of a pain than just editing a simple text configuration file for a daemon.)