RE: [MLUG] backup of home dir..

[Bren McMullen <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

scp = secure copy. you can use it to copy files/directorys on your
computer to a remote system (its encrypted)

As for backing your directory up I guess you COULD write a python script
using its time and os modules to keep on looping the time to check it if
matches a certian time and then when it does match make it execute
os.system('scp blah:EMAIL:PROTECTED).  the problem with this is that you would
have to have your program running all of the time.  Im sure that there is
a much easier way to accomplish what you want.

-Bren

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

> 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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