I have been trying to find a way of backing up my work, from the univerisities filestore, to my Laptop, or Server. After trying out a number of different programs i've decided to use rsync to synchronise the universities filestore with my server's account. I also installed rsync in my laptop, and i synchronise between my laptop and server.
The way this works is that when i login into my universities account, i run an UpdateWork.sh script. Which updates all the files inside the ~/Work directory with my ~/Work in my server. Then when i finish working, i then run an UploadWork.sh script which does the opesite, synchronises my server's ~/Work with the uni's ~/Work. Me being lazy, and very forgetful, i setup openbox todo this automaticly, every time i login and everytime i press the exit button on the menu. I've created RSA ssh id's, that allow me to use ssh-agent to lgin without typing in a password.
I'll try and improve these scripts, to include either cvs or subversion concurrent backup feature, along with rsync. This will allow me to go back and get a previous version of a file. Also these files are just source codes for java, or normal documents. So therefore they won't get too big. I also leave these scripts inside my ~/Work folder. So when ever i change something, my server, uni and my laptop, they all get updated, when i run the script. So this works nicely.
Ofcourse this really breaks down if you forget to Upload the new files, or something. eg: in uni i started the UpdateWork.sh script. Then i created new files, etc etc. Then the Upload script did not work and openbox exited too quickly. Now when i relogged in again, the update script started. Therefore it erased all the new files that it found on the ~/Work directory. So be careful. I'll try and improve it in the future.
These scripts also works on windows, i mean if you use cygwin, and install rsync with it. Then this works just fine. It works the same was as it does on Linux.