Following our recommendations for strategies and methods of backing up your computer, we discuss an old tool, rsync, and it's graphical front-end, grsync. Almost all the options of rsync in a graphical form without the disadvantages of rsync. With the approaching release of the next iteration of Ubuntu and its derivatives, many of us will be looking to upgrade. Before making any major change to your system, a backup is an essential precaution.

Episode 319 Time Stamps

00:00 Going Linux #319 · Backups with Grsync

00:15 Introduction

00:45 Bill moves to New Mexico

03:40 Grsync

04:06 Backup before you upgrade

04:58 Backup hardware

07:44 Backup software

08:40 A graphical front-end for rsync

09:28 Grsync is cross-platform

11:35 Almost all the options of rsync in a graphical form...

11:53 ... without the disadvantages of rsync

13:53 University of Aukland NZ

16:08 Piero Orsoni's list of features of grsync

19:00 Why use an old program like grsync rather than the more modern options?

21:30 Grsync outputs the rsync commands

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26:09 End