<p dir="ltr">Ummm ... er ... what?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Virtually all commercial programs use the rsync algorithm, as do _many_ open source tools, including servers and GUIs. Of course Apple and Microsoft products, and their core partners are *not* going to provide good Linux client support in their costly, commercial products.</p>
<p dir="ltr">But wake up man!</p>
<p dir="ltr">There are not only countless open source tools and solutions with GUIs, not only countless commercial options, but "blackbox" solutions, even ones _cheaper_ than Apple and Microsoft solutions and partner solutions, especially ones sold under CAL prices.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sorry ... er, um, no ... disagree, strongly, with this assertion here.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">DISCLAIMER: Sent from phone, please excuse any typos<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 19, 2016 09:03, "Justin Smith" <<a href="mailto:justin@adminix.net">justin@adminix.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Linux is an incredibly versatile family of operating systems but suffers from deficiencies for certain use cases.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">File backup is one of them. Sure, for a more advanced user, it's easy enough to set up an ownCloud instance or piece together a scripted set of rsync runs, but what about the for the average user who wants something that "just works?"</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">As an OS X system administrator over the past couple of years, I've noticed that users like Apple's Time Machine application. While not feature-rich, it's a relatively simple program: you point your computer to a destination, and it takes care of the rest.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><a href="http://backintime.le-web.org/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2980b9">BackInTime</span></a> is a similar program for Linux. With it, you can set up regular backups using SSH and rsync, and there's a graphical interface to help with configuration and file restoration. It isn't <span style="font-style:italic">quite</span> as simple as Time Machine, but what it lacks in ease of use it makes up for in opportunity to learn the core tools that make Linux so amazing.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">This would be an excellent use case for an inexpensive Linux computer such as the recently-released Raspberry Pi 3 and an external hard drive.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I propose a presentation that includes three separate topics of interest: an introduction to the Raspberry Pi 3, an overview of SSH & rsync, and a tutorial for setting up SSH on a Raspberry Pi 3 (or other spare Linux box) as a BackInTime server.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Since I'm now living in Ohio, it would probably have to be a remote presentation. If that would be a problem, I can see about coming home for the weekend to give my talk.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-weight:600">Justin Smith</span></p>
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