Safepoint issue .... or not?

[cpt_paranoia]

You might look at using rsync instead of Safepoint. nicktee55 developed a script and instructions to do it. I cleaned up his script following the forum changes (but haven’t tested it…), that cause formatting problems that make important characters vanish from posts (#, specifically):

Happy accident - INCLUDES AN ALTERNATIVE TO SAFEPOINT

Appreciate that my formatting has been messed about by moving to the new forum system. Here’s my attempt to sort out the formatting mess. I’ve tried to format command line And script file line1 line2 line3 etc With acknowledgements to Arty2, we’ll create the Python email script. Log in via SSH using PuTTY then: nano /shares/system/Tasks/mail.py Paste (right click) the following into the editor #!/usr/bin/env python #-*- coding: utf-8 -*- from email.header import Header from email.mime…

and a follow-up thread from Nick (beware of the missing ‘#’, though):

Alternative to Safepoint - reposted

I posted an alternative to Safepoint under a previous posting commencing “Happy accident…”. The move to the new forum style corrupted the formatting. Here, for anyone who wants it is my original post, correctly formatted. It’s worked well for me for five months now, including a disaster recovery that went smoothly, I appreciate that some of the scripts could possibly be more elegant to those more experienced than myself, but this does have one advantage - it works! This will back up any shares …