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[Scott Severance <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know Ubuntu One so well, but the way I'd do this in dropbox would be
to simply symlink stuff to the Dropbox directory. Is there a reason this
won't work for Ubuntu One?

On 2009-10-03, Andrew Yeomans <ajv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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