Support Apps

Applications used to enhance the Guayadeque experience

Grsync - For syncing data across multiple locations

I use Grsync to keep my music duplicated to another computer as a backup. It is a pretty straight forward tool that is a gui tool for rsync, a very powerful linux tool. It can also use SSH or NFS mounted drives or any external mounted drives.

To install it, in terminal run -

sudo apt-get install grsync

When you start grsync you will see a screen like this one

In my setup, I have my main music in /media/storage/Music/mp3new and that is my source. The destination is /192.168.40.134/:/media/storage/Music - This is connected via SSH

This is very a important note here for incremental backups. The first time you run this it will create the mp3new folder on the 2nd machine, and will duplicate what you have on the first machine to the 2nd

I also have it set to delete on the destination and you need to this to prevent duplicates. If you were to make a change with EasyTag or edit a tag in Guayadeque and did not have this option set, it would copy over that entire file from the first machine and you would have two separate files of the same name. With this on, it will only copy over the incremental changes (the actual tag) you made and nothing else. This keeps the amount of data copied low as well.

Under advance options you will note under additional options that I have a variable there of -e "ssh -p 92". This is needed for SSH if you use it. I use port 92 instead of the default ssh port of 22 for security reasons.

Once you have these set, click the gears in the top right portion of Grsync and the application begins. Obviously, the first time time you run it, it may take a while to copy everything over. After that, it will only copy changes.

Additional Grsync sources
Grsync How To
Grsync Pain Free Backups This one has good advice on backup schedules and more in depth advanced commands.