Chapter 43. A Little Mirdir, My Dear?

Mirdir provides a quick and easy way to make an ad hoc backup of important data. With it you can copy a file or directories to your keydisk, or save redundant copies of data you can’t afford to lose. It tries to do only one thing, and do it well: mirror a directory.

Mirdir is not designed for, and is not suitable for, regularly scheduled backup chores!

Mirdir is licensed under the GPL. You can download your choice of an executable RPM, source RPM, or a source tarball from the URL below.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles
.php?group_id=128580&package_id=146026

To install it on my SUSE desktop box, I chose the ...

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