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Automated Backups in Tiger

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Richard Hough over at MacDevCenter has written up a useful little bit of information on how one can have Automated Backups on Tiger Using rsync: "One of the uses for this command is to compare the files on your internal drive to those on your backup drive, and only archive the files that have changed."

Hough starts off the article, saying, "I'm going to show you how to create a free, customizable backup solution using only software that comes with Mac OS X 10.4, which will automatically back up changes to your data without user intervention. . . .To use this solution, you should back up to an external firewire hard drive or to a network volume. " I think this might persuade me to do away with my plain and simple once a week cloning of my hard-drive. I like the ideas of free and automated.