Ross Belmont has rigged up a backup solution using the UNIX philosophy of employing many small tools, each perfectly suited for its job.
One of the tools he uses is Highrise. He has the script e-mail the contents of the log file to his Highrise Dropbox so he can access it easily. "So far, this has worked without a hitch, and I feel much better having my files backed up everyday," he says.
Here's why he chose to incorporate Highrise into his system:
Growl is cool, but it didn’t provide much in the way of detail as to what happened with the script. I kinda wanted to see a log of what happened, except I didn’t feel like managing log files. I was really looking to get the log info via RSS, and for that I had to post it to the web somewhere. Highrise solves all these issues, and the default Dashboard view is great in the way it highlights the latest info. (After all, I really don’t care about yesterday’s backup after today.) My script e-mails the contents of the log file to my Highrise Dropbox, which was really easy to do with just a few lines of Ruby code.
Read Automated backup to Strongspace with rsync, Automator, and Highrise for full details. Or cut to the chase and download this file to check out the scripts.
Related: Ross also wrote some code to create Backpack reminders via e-mail/SMS.
