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[Andrew Yeomans <ajv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

rsync would do it. Check out unison
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ too as that allows you (for
example) to ignore .tmp files and browser cache, as well as doing a two-way
replication.

Andrew Yeomans


2009/10/3 Tony Willoughby <tonyw@xxxxxxxxx>

>
> Now that Ubuntu One provides 50GB of storage, I want to use it to backup my
> entire home directory (which is now about 40GB).
>
> I figure the easiest thing would be to set up a cron job to periodically
> copy modified files to ~/Ubuntu One.
>
> My question is, what's the best way to copy only files that have been
> modified?  Is rsync best?  Something else?
>
> Does anyone have a script they would like to share?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Tony Willoughby tonyw@xxxxxxxxx
>
> "You should use Linux; it doesn't cause trees to crash into your house."
> -Donald Arseneau in comp.text.tex
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