Lately I have been worried about loosing data and work for my thesis. My lab does not provides any common tool to make backup so I decided to work on a small script that could allow me to make daily backup on one of my lab server.
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This script is available under the GNU GPLv2 licence and then I will be happy to ear about any new idea or patches that you may imagine. You can get the script here, instructions are provided in comments: