Rsync on passthejoe

Backups in Linux: I keep it simple

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 15:55:35 -0700

The next step in putting a new hard drive into my laptop is to make a full backup of the /home files. I haven’t done a full-image Clonezilla-style backup in a long, long time, and I do recommend it it you have a spare drive and a lot of spare time.

Instead I just back up my user files. I have two working Linux computers right now, and if I need to rebuild one, I can do a reinstall and get my preferred applications set up fairly quickly.

Using rsync to update a Hugo blog

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:11:24 -0700

The one disadvantage of a static-site generator like Hugo is that after you create an entry and build your blog locally, you then have to figure out how to update your site on the server. And Hugo seems to change a whole lot of files with every run of the command hugo, even if you are only creating a single entry.

There’s a heavy amount of encouragement to use GitHub to manage the blog and some kind of build utility to transfer the files to the web server.

There is an rsync for Windows, and it works

Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:34:27 -0800

I’ve been meaning to look into backup solutions for Windows, and while there should eventually be a full Ubuntu Linux shell coming to Windows 10, it’s not there yet unless you tweak things that I can’t ask other users to do.

So I figured that when the Linux shell comes to Windows, I’ll use rsync, the Unix/Linux backup utility I’ve been using for years.

I just found out that there’s already an rsync port to Windows called cwRsync that you can pay for, with a free command-line-only edition available for download.