From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: backing up hard drive with emacs? Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 11:04:01 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87d2ffg371.fsf@stevenarntson.com> <20140515032144.GA16409@hysteria.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400166377 6242 80.91.229.3 (15 May 2014 15:06:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 15:06:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 15 17:06:11 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WkxEY-0004tQ-E0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 May 2014 17:06:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58604 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkxEX-0003HC-VW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 May 2014 11:06:09 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="19517"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+1DyfZxy24lPlo33/v0DrD" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pclc6DgqZtPitWByau0WhEQZhy8= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205403 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97671 Archived-At: In article , Steven Arntson 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 ***