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An AppleScript for real time backups with Path Finder
While it seems like a nice way of tagging things for backup, wouldn't it be a better idea to use something like rsync to do the actual copies? It should be much faster, and will also 'catch up' if the script happened to miss anything, and it will copy files that changed instead of just ones that have been added.
An AppleScript for real time backups with Path Finder
You can use launchd in combination with rsync, and just have rsync copy whenever something is changed in that folder. I use Lingon and RsyncX as the GUIs (when I don't want to remember the command line stuff).
An AppleScript for real time backups with Path Finder
I have found a way to do it via rsync (after a bit of time in the man pages of course). Here we go . . .
Using rsync actually synchronizes the source and backup folder (the destination folder will look exactly like the source folder after the script runs) rathr than simply copying files from one folder to the next. You can also set up rsync to do a backup of any files which are deleted from the destination folder in the event that you want to replace an older version of your file by using the '--backup' and '--backup-dir=/path/to/backup/folder' verbs. Now none of us have an excuse to not have regularly backed up files (atleast the important ones). |
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