Greetings everyone, I am back with more information about backing up your files. I know, I know, talking about backups might be boring, but one day a good backup will save your butt, I guarantee it. Previously I posted an article extolling the virtues of rsync, a very powerful command line tool for syncing files both locally and across networks via SSH. This is great for command line addicts like myself, and especially because you can use it in scripts such that along with shared keys and keychain it becomes a powerful tool in your arsenal of sysadmin goodies.
Now, for folks that aren’t command like geeks, or maybe just want a quick and easy way to backup some files, there is a nifty little tool called grsync. This is (as you can probably guess from the name) a gui for the command line rsync, making it much more user friendly. Also, it’s quite nice for pointing and clicking what you want, and then seeing what the command it will use is, a learning tool.
The home of grsync is here:
For Debian, Ubuntu users you can find it in the repositories.