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I don't think it's a waste of time... IF... it becomes a truly transparent one-button process that doesn't require you to jump through hoops to install it or get it working.


OK, to throw in a slightly more useful two cents. AFAIK you won't get there using ftp as it doesn't have a foolproof way of recognizing changed files so your stuck pulling the full file over the wire every time. It also means you can't synchronize pieces of files (so if you change an ID3 tag you'll end up syncing the whole mp3). That means you are going to have to install something on the empeg to do incremental backups. This obviously is troublesome for a linux newbie or people wouldn't keep asking for a "one click" backup solution.

Anyway, given that ftp won't work you might as well use rsync or unison (similar to rsync, but does a 2 way sync) rather than reinventing the wheel. Neither of these will be trivial for a newbie to setup and both require cygwin on the windows side.

I still think he would be better off using an established tool and putting together a good write up that can be faq'd for the next person.

-Mike
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