Hi all,

This is a bit of a tan, but I figure somebody may have experience with this. Currently I keep my office, home office, and notebook computer synched using an rsynch script that I run each time I log on and log out: what happens is that when I run the log-in script, I collect the files from my base computer (the one that is backed up) and when I run the log out script, I update the files on the base computer from whichevery one I am using.

The problem is that sometimes I forget to run either one or the other of the scripts and I endup losing data: mostly this affects my locally archived mail.

I was looking into rsynch further, and began to wonder if I used it with the -u option (this prevents rsych from over writing is the target file is newer) if I might not be able to set up a system where the remote computers rsynched to the base computer constantly (i.e. I would set up a cron job so that rysnch was run on the remote computer with the -u option every five minutes or hour or something similar).

Has anybody tried anything like this? The trouble with rsynch always is that if you mess it up it starts knocking giant holes in your data.

-dan