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"Yes, I do know rsync. I do know cron. I do know all kinds of tools. Did I use them regularly? No, I was too lazy, as I suspect most people are." Laziness is t
by thwarted 18y ago
"Yes, I do know rsync. I do know cron. I do know all kinds of tools. Did I use them regularly? No, I was too lazy, as I suspect most people are."
Laziness is the oddest reason to have for not using cron. Not using cron regularly? This is a joke, right?
- bbb 18y agoThe comment about using them regularly was mostly targeted at rsync, tar, and other backup tools. I never invested the effort to automate my backups even though I am well aware of cron. Part of the problem is that the manual part of connecting the backup hard drive remains. I don't like online backups since I don't have sufficient bandwidth. So what I was really looking for was a nicely scripted backup solution that integrates with udev, so that I really only have to plug in my hard drive. And figuring out udev -- which tends to change from version to version -- is something that I thought I'd do "later."
- thwarted 18y agoautofs and test -e for the existence of a file in the mount point. But this is all moot since you've already decided to let Apple handle it. I wonder how many people who use Timemachine actually verify the backups created with it.