I never meant this to be a geeky blog - but I’m obviously so sad that the only things I feel I can contribute to the world are things that I’ve done, and that’s all a bit techy at the moment.

I’ve been meaning to set up some form of backup facility for my main desktop machine - and somehow I don’t think my old ZIP drive is going to make the cut.

But I’ve been playing with various Linux distros, and have a nice clean Fedore Core 5 box with a 60GB hard drive - couldn’t I use that?

So I start thinking - Samba configured so my XP machine can see a chunk of the FC5 machine as a fileshare? A bit clunky perhaps, even with the good old fashioned Backup utility that’s still included with Windows I see.

I remeber rsync which can be so effective in duplicating filesystems, but can I use that from Windows?

I dig about and come across DeltaCopy - looks good. I spend a quite enjoyable couple of hours figuring out how to configure rsyncd and open up the fc5 firewall to let remote connections through - I’ve got a backup process running now, so we’ll see how it goes.