Re: [Motion-user] off site storage

[Joe C. <joe...@gm...>]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Peter <lin...@se...> wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I am looking for a way of copying/mirroring all files such as JPG's
> movies etc that Motion writes to the local hdd to an off site sotrage.
> What does eveyone use? I would like to upload new files tot he server
> but not delete ones that I have deleted locally thus the local machine
> can have a smaller storage space but offsite can be huge and I will
> delete these manually.
>
> Just create a cron job which calls rsync.
There's options on rsync to not delete the remote files.
If you use ssh keys this can authenticate with a remote server automatically
This can be a little fiddly as it's very sensitive to permissions.
google is your friend if you're not familiar with cron/rsync/ssh keys.

Joe