Re: Orca speech friendly backup application

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Hi MICHAEL,

> Could anyone suggest a speech friendly backup application that works with 
> Orca?
>   

You don't say what you are backing up to.  Nowadays, I backup to an 80GB
drive attached to my Ubuntu system via USB. I just backup files under my
home directory with a simple rsync command that I run from a terminal 
window.

I added the following alias to my ~/.bash_aliases file:

alias USB_BACKUP='/usr/bin/rsync -a -v --delete --timeout=600 
/home/richb /media/UNTITLED/BACKUPS/UBUNTU'

Now I simply have to run:

USB_BACKUP

from the command line in  a terminal window and it syncs the two file areas.
I should automate it via a cron job, but sometimes I don't want to do a sync
(say I've just downloaded a temporary huge file that I don't want to 
copy over).

Others will no doubt have their own similar solutions.