RE: [MLUG] backup of home dir..

["Lloyd, Jamie" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I'm a newbie.  So I have no clue what scp means.
I'm trying to learn perl and python right now.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Miller [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 11:25 PM
To: MLUG (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [MLUG] backup of home dir..


On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Lloyd, Jamie wrote:

> What would be the most easiest way of backing up a specified directory
> from my personal Linux box to my account on bengal?  RSYNC ??  or
> what?  Perl?  Python script?
>
> I need to be able to copy contents from dir of one machine to dir of
> another machine every night at a specified time.


Can't that be done with a crontab that calls scp?

I'm not sure how to handle the password issue, but I'll bet someone else
will tell us.

Mike

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