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http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/06/23/how-to-resume-a-broken-scp-transfer/
Resume scp with curl, very smart... `curl -C - --pubkey ~/.ssh/key.pub --key ~/.ssh/key sftp://user@host:/path/to/my_precious_iso.iso -o my_precious_iso.iso
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http://www.macresearch.org/tutorial_backups_with_launchd
Tutorial on how to have launchd automatically run scripts (such as rysnc) when USB devices are plugged in, automated backup when a USB drive is plugged in for example.
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http://blog.arnaudlacour.com/2012/11/backing-up-to-usb-drive-when-plugged-in.html
Tutorial on how to set up OSX to automatically backup when a USB drive is plugged in. Neat.
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http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/06/ecryptfs-backup-strategy.html
One strategy to backup encrypted ecryptfs data as suggested by the author of ecryptfs. Useful and simple. Backup the metadata and the raw files with rsync.
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http://pastebin.com/yPyK193a
A different strategy to find an encrypted filename from an unencrypted filename under ecryptfs (Ubunut's encrypted home directory system).
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http://www.telmon.org/?p=631
Interesting article including a script that figures out a mapping from unencrypted filenames into ecryptfs encrypted filenames. Potentially useful.
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http://kylecordes.com/2009/missing-svntmp-fix
Handy little post. If .svn/tmp dirs are msising, say excluded from backup, one line solution `find -iname ".svn" -exec mkdir {}/tmp \;`
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http://www.nabble.com/Samba---rsync-f13158.html
Nabble provide a forum front end interface to mailing lists. This is the rsync (hosted by samba) mailing list. Searchable, very useful.
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http://www.rsnapshot.org/
rsnapshot is a perl utility that creates (illusory) filesystem snapshots using rsync and hardlinks (to save space). Every time a file is changed, a new copy is created, otherwise a hard link is used. It works hourly, daily or monthly.
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http://www.s3rsync.com/
Rsync to S3 is a service which combines EC2 and S3 to provide a bandwidth efficient S3 based backup mechanism. It takes advantage of the free bandwidth between EC2 and S3 to overcome the limitations of S3 for rsync backup.
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http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
Duplicity performs incremental, encrypted backups onto a range of interfaces including scp, ftp, rsync, WebDAV and Amazon S3. It uses standard tar, rsync and GPG tools, so the data can be recovered manually.
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http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/007641.html
A comparison of Amazon S3 backup tools, a mixture of Windows, Linux and Mac options.
