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pMirror - backup/mirror a partition or directory

- Gui for mirdir (19 kb).
- See pBackup for more backup features.


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pMirror-0.6.2-1 [Mirror] (3 kb).
pMirror_NLS [Mirror]


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that could be useful for some . . .
you can find icons (linked) by clicking on home/puppy_reference
. . . that might suit

code looks interesting - will have a look later

Lobster wrote:that could be useful for some . . .

I hope someone out there can use this code. I use it regular for my private datas and my firm. It is so simple that backup really are made more often than before. When I first have configured PuppyMirror, it is a one-button-backup system.

How to use it with directory with space ?????

/mnt/something something/something

Pbackup has a simple mirror-function, and will allow spaces. The upcoming version Pbackup 2.1 will also be a gui for mirdir, that also handles names with spaces. PuppyMirror will not be futher developed by me.

Pbackup:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=10975

Version 0.2 is uploaded. See main post.

Version 0.3
See main post

Version 0.4
See main post

How can I set mirdir to mirror a directory in realtime? Is there an example somewhere?

you could use Pschedule (system-menu). Here you can define whatever task that you want frequently done. - Very easy to use.


Sigmund

Wow that's too funny I thought I saw that scheduler somewhere last year when I was mucking through the menus. Thanks

This is probably a dumb question but if I mirror a boot able partition will the mirror boot? If not what is the best way to make such an animal ?
To ghost the drive I mean.

Frank Cox wrote:This is probably a dumb question but if I mirror a boot able partition will the mirror boot? If not what is the best way to make such an animal ?
To ghost the drive I mean.

I think you need a partition tool (like parted or Gparted) to set the boot flag. Pmirror will for sure not set this flag.


Sigmund

zigbert wrote:

Frank Cox wrote:This is probably a dumb question but if I mirror a boot able partition will the mirror boot? If not what is the best way to make such an animal ?
To ghost the drive I mean.

I think you need a partition tool (like parted or Gparted) to set the boot flag. Pmirror will for sure not set this flag.


Sigmund

If the drive is mirrored the flag would be set, at least I think it would , it would hopefully ber be a mirror image, identical in every detail. Of course I am not at all knowledgeable about these ghosting programs or if pmirror is similar /. I was hoping to find out if it would work without wasting a disk and rgew eime, I am sure someone around here knows that.

Thanks anyway Sigmund.

Version 0.5
See main post

zigbert wrote:Version 0.5
See main post

What does that code do Zigbert?

Thanks

mirdir (Pmirror is a gui for it) is a tool that allows you to synchronize two directory trees in a fast way. Only the differences between the two sets of files are copied while the excess files/directories in the destination tree are removed (unless there was an explicit request to keep them).

in 0.5, /usr/local/bin/pmirror contains only:

Thank you scottman - Now fixed.


Sigmund

Would you consider improving pmirror?

For instance your help text says --->

'Pmirror is a simple backup system to make one like another.'

...but what if you choose a partition to backup to.
There is a warning but it's confusing.

Could you rewrite the app so that you can't choose a partition.
Only a folder should be the destination.