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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: backing up hard drive with emacs?
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 11:04:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-229DDF.11040115052014@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1379.1400126061.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

In article <mailman.1379.1400126061.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> wrote:

> Haha, yes, emacs pretty much is my operating system, which is why I was
> curious. :) That said, I'm using Ubuntu. I looked at a couple of rsync
> examples, and I think that program looks pretty good--I'm going to try it.

Emacs might be useful to put a nice UI onto some other backup solution. 
But since backup doesn't really need much of a UI, I guess no one has 
bothered.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-15 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-15  2:56 backing up hard drive with emacs? Steven Arntson
2014-05-15  3:17 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-15  3:21 ` Bob Proulx
2014-05-15  3:53   ` Steven Arntson
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1379.1400126061.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-15 15:04     ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2014-05-15 16:22     ` Hans BKK
2014-05-15 18:33       ` Dan.Espen
     [not found] <mailman.1372.1400122612.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-30  2:41 ` Davin Pearson
2014-06-30  2:43   ` Davin Pearson

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