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I tried out shuffler today while talking in the phone. Bad idea! Good idea to backup though, since I was able to restore all (I think) MP3s I accidentally deleted due to wrong settings. Oups!

Something is completely wrong in my universe (is it just my universe or does any other universe malfunction in the same way?). First I nearly burnt down my kitchen two days ago (the smell is starting to dissappear), then my server died yesterday (doesn’t boot anymore, but I had no essential data on it), and today I almost deleted all my MP3s (horror). I can hardly wait for what tomorrow will bring. Exciting times!

There are a lot of things that grown ups do. Now, I’m one step closer. You know, that thing about backing up ones data. I didn’t want a fancy solution, but a simple one, ThatJustWorks. So I went for rsync. Basically, rsync just sync the differences between the files. One great feture is that it works the same when you want to sync between two places on the same harddrive and between a client and a server.

cwSync is a nice package for Windows (using a stripped down Cygwin). I haven’t run it enough to know if it’s too slow. I don’t think that rsync on its own is too slow, but the harddrive I’m syncing with is accessed via WiFi. I might have to move it to a server, we’ll see.