viking60 wrote:Hmm that is not exactly true.
You can do a
ssh://snorkasauras@server in Thunar, PCmanfm, Nautilus and pretty much any filehandler. PCmanfm also has the split screen function (F3) so you can drag and drop whatever you like. You can navigate as if you are on your own box.
Well, to be fair those are not SSH, they are Thunar, PCmanfm, Nautilus and pretty much any filehandler. I believe that the ability to open ssh:// locations in any of those applications is actually not a feature of those applications but rather the underlying support of SSH itself or other similar mechanism no? I may not have tried every possible Linux based file manager, but I am pretty sure the ones you have listed there also have significant requirements beyond xorg, openbox, and xdm.
viking60 wrote:In Thunar your login will be saved under your network places so you only have to do it once...
Windows Explorer and WinSCP do offer this feature as well as WinSCP's ability to do key based authentication.
viking60 wrote:And I do a daily backup with a cron job it does not get any more automated than that (It starts our backup script that uses rsync and backs up all the boxes in the network to one USB drive).
I run my nightly backups with WinSCP and task scheduler... same level of automation it seems.
I tried screwing with rsync but struggled to get it to backup
some items but
not others. For example, I want to back up selected files within the /etc directory but not the entire /etc directory. I also wish to backup selected directories within the /etc directory but not all of them. I want them all backed up to the same directory
structure on the local backup server but obviously not to the backup server's /etc directory. This design simplifies restores and minimizes required traffic (since I am doing these nightly backups between two DSL links at 32kBps). I also need to be able to exclude certain files or directories. For example, I have a subdirectory on one of my web sites that needs to be excluded because it stores cached information that will be locked. I also need rsync to connect to my father's PC to back it up as well but my father's PC runs FreeSSHd which chokes rsync because it does not like the header information in what is essentially a DOS prompt.
Don't think I didn't spend plenty of time on rsync... I tried it, and plenty of frontends for it, they just couldn't do it without at least double the fight.
S.