Backups via SCP or RSYNC

[Johnathan Bailes]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 14:56 +0000, Neil Marjoram wrote:
> Roger,
> 
> I use Unison, it syncs both ways, I use it with ssh to create the 
> tunnel, using the command ssh -i ~/.ssh/alternatekey, where the 
> alternatekey is a blank password key which is copied the the remote 
> server. It's not apparent how to configure ssh options in unison, if you 
> want to use Unison I'll send over the config. 
> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
> It's really quick if you are using it to check for updates, as I do (I 
> keep a hot sink of my main file server, since it's two way (rsync is one 
> way) if the server crashes I can use it to put everything back again 
> without hassel. Has one of them new GUI things too!
> 
> Neil.
> 

I have heard a lot of good things about Unison but never used it
myself.  

But there are people that swear by it.