Conf File Backup Idea

[David Christopher Chipman]

Thom Paine wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions. I'll have a look at some of them and see
> if I can figure something out.
>
> I don't mind manually making lists of files as I start working with
> them. What really prompted this was that I have some home automation
> working really well on an old server I had. One power outtage that
> lasted longer than 30 minutes while I was away from home, two hard
> drives in the array went offline. I thought the whole server was lost
> and last night I dusted it off and rooted around in the adaptec
> interface and was able to force them both back online and bring the
> array back up. I quickly copied off my heyu files but I got to
> thinking if there was a way to automatically rsync files somewhere
> when I edit them, it would make things simpler on a server I have no
> need to completely back up, yet have some good info on it.
>
>
>   
How about a shell script that starts up an editor, for you to edit a 
given file, then backs it up to a remote server?

-David