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Creating remote server nicknames with .ssh/config

Date: 2008-11-20 | Modified: 2010-04-08 | Tags: emacs, linux, rsync, softwaretools, ssh, ubuntu

Using the ~/.ssh/config file is an easy way to give your remote machines nicknames and reduce the number of keystrokes needed to login with ssh, rsync, hg push/pull/clone, access files via Emacs Tramp (Transparent Remote (file) Access, Multiple Protocol), or use any other SSH-based tool. You can also set other ssh options such as IdentityFile, Port, or CompressionLevel. For more information and a full list of options, check out the man page for ssh_config or this article by Kimmo Suominen.

Here is part of my ~/.ssh/config file. It defines the nicknames turk, tyran, tuna, and tally ...

Backup on Linux: rsnapshot vs. rdiff-backup (vs. Time Machine)

Date: 2008-02-07 | Tags: linux, rsync, softwaretools, ubuntu | 29 Comments

Apple's release of Leopard and the included backup utility, Time Machine, has generated a lot of talk about backups recently. I will admit Time Machine is pretty cool and believe that it is a bit more than a glorified GUI on top of an existing *nix tool as some have claimed. However, the core functionality is very similar to the command-line tool, rsnapshot, which is itself based on a rsync script by Mike Rubel. Time Machine added a couple of features and a GUI to make it easy to use. Since I prefer the command line over GUIs most ...

backing up with rsync

Date: 2007-08-31 | Modified: 2011-09-07 | Tags: cygwin, files_directories, python, rsync, softwaretools | 1 Comment

Here is a python script using rsync to backup my Users directory in Vista to an external hard drive.

import os

cmd = "rsync -avz --exclude '/AppData/'" + \
      "/cygdrive/c/Users/saltycrane" + \
      "/cygdrive/f/backup/Users"
os.system(cmd)

Why not to use the backup program that comes with your external hard drive:¶

Do not, whatever you do, feed your valuable data to a program that is going to save it in a file format that can only be read by that program, or by that kind of computer. Because when the program can’t or the computer can’t, you’re ...

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