“This week is all about simplicity. 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 licensed under
the GPL. You can download your choice of an executable RPM, source
RPM, or a source tarball. To install it on my SUSE 10 desktop box,
I chose the executable RPM, usedsuto install as
root, and enteredrpm -Uvh mirdir-2.1-1.i386.rpm. On
my Ubuntu Breezy machine, I decompressed the tarball, entered the
Mirdir subdirectory, ran./configureand
make…”
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