Backup Things to External HD from Computer Running Amahi?

[chrisandnicole]

Hi guys -- complete newbie here, so your help is definitely appreciated.

I got Amahi running on a laptop connected to a wireless network. I'm able to upload and download from it, and everything's good on that end.

The issue: it would be great if the laptop running Amahi was able to automatically backup its files to an external hard drive connected to that Amahi computer. Is this possible?

I realize I could do this via Time Machine or other methods through our regular computers connected to the wireless network, but there would be a ton of lag time and bandwidth used, so it'd be great if the Amahi laptop could just do it itself and not use the wireless network.

Any input you guys have would be great -- thanks!

[bigfoot65]

Yes that is possible. Would probalby be done via a cron job using rsync. There is some guidance in the wiki.
https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Backups

You can probably find several tutorials on the internet as well. If you ome up with something that works, please consdier adding it to the wiki for others to benefit.