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There are a lot of things that grown ups do. Now, I’m one step closer. You know, that thing about backing up ones data. I didn’t want a fancy solution, but a simple one, ThatJustWorks. So I went for rsync. Basically, rsync just sync the differences between the files. One great feture is that it works the same when you want to sync between two places on the same harddrive and between a client and a server.

cwSync is a nice package for Windows (using a stripped down Cygwin). I haven’t run it enough to know if it’s too slow. I don’t think that rsync on its own is too slow, but the harddrive I’m syncing with is accessed via WiFi. I might have to move it to a server, we’ll see.