I purchased Rob Flickenger's book Linux Server Hacks the first day it was available at O'Reilly. They had to go to the back room and open the carton. And then last night I again found myself enthralled by the beauty that is the Unix way of life.

cd /home pax -wvz rich | ssh puppy.testingrange.com "pax -rvz"
pax -wvz -T 0302010000 rich | ssh puppy.testingrange.com "pax -rv"

The first command duplicates my home directory on a second machine, while the second command updates everything changed since midnight, Feb 1st, 2003.

Jorn Barger writes So long as you're working with PhotoShop or MP3s or TiVo video, etc, a 40-gig harddrive is just bigger. But when you talk about ascii text, 40-gigs is effectively infinite-- no human could read 40 gigs of text in their lifetime! I thought that I had a lot of data. 16 gb of pictures, 22 gb of mp3's, and all the rest. But when I started to look at things, 'all the rest' started to become manageable. Like Mary Ann on Gilligan (write me if catch the reference).

Excluding photos and mp3's, I need to sling around just three or four directories worth of stuff, totalling under 8 gb at a whack. And that is for complete backups. Moving to the incremental approach makes it even easier.

Everything got easier when I put in my 100 mb hub.