[Dirvish] Inotify triggered backup

[Paul Slootman]

On Tue 05 Feb 2008, Red Mop wrote:

> I'm working on an inotify triggered dirvish backup for computers that are not always on.  The idea is that a script runs either on boot or in a cron job on the client that creates a file on the server via ssh which then activates dirvish.  Once it's working, I'll post it for anyone to use.
> 
> I have alot of it figured out, though I do have some dirvish querstions.
> 
> I don't want to run an expire on a group of images until they are backed up.  Thus, I came up with this:

What exactly do you mean by the above sentence?
In dirvish terms, an image *is* a backup. Do you want to make a copy of
those images to some other system?


Paul Slootman