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Backup to NTFS Drive?
Just some info about my hard drive setup. I have a 150GB WD Raptor X as my boot drive with partitions for Ubuntu and Windows. I have 500GB hard drive for my home partition (mainly to keep my movie and music collections since the Raptor is too small) and I also have an external 500GB hard drive (eSATA for what it's worth) formatted NTFS, because I use it both on Ubuntu and the rare boots into Windows, and I'd like to be able to backup some of my folders to it, ideally automatically. I've looked at rsync and am not sure where to start with it, or if I should use something else. When I buy movies or music, I usually rip them and never use the disc again, so I'd like to have a folder on my external drive mirror my /home/*/Videos folder, either right after a rip or a midnight folder sync or something. What would be a good way to go about backing up like that? I'd be willing to format my external to ext3 if need be.
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gnome2::vfs::drive

Gnome2::VFS::Drive(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   Gnome2::VFS::Drive(3pm)

NAME

       Gnome2::VFS::Drive - Container around Gnome2::VFS::Volume

HIERARCHY

	 Glib::Object
	 +----Gnome2::VFS::Drive

METHODS

   string = $drive->get_activation_uri
   integer = $a->compare ($b)
       o   $b (Gnome2::VFS::Drive)

   string = $drive->get_device_path
   devicetype = $drive->get_device_type
   string = $drive->get_display_name
   $drive->eject ($func, $data=undef)
       o   $func (scalar)

       o   $data (scalar)

   string = $drive->get_hal_udi
       Since: vfs 2.8

   string = $drive->get_icon
   unsigned = $drive->get_id
   boolean = $drive->is_connected
   boolean = $drive->is_mounted
   boolean = $drive->is_user_visible
   $drive->mount ($func, $data=undef)
       o   $func (scalar)

       o   $data (scalar)

   list = $drive->get_mounted_volumes
       Since: vfs 2.8

   boolean = $drive->needs_eject
       Since: vfs 2.16

   $drive->unmount ($func, $data=undef)
       o   $func (scalar)

       o   $data (scalar)

SIGNALS

       volume-mounted (Gnome2::VFS::Drive, Gnome2::VFS::Volume)
       volume-pre-unmount (Gnome2::VFS::Drive, Gnome2::VFS::Volume)
       volume-unmounted (Gnome2::VFS::Drive, Gnome2::VFS::Volume)

ENUMS AND FLAGS

   enum Gnome2::VFS::DeviceType
       o   'unknown' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_UNKNOWN'

       o   'audio-cd' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_AUDIO_CD'

       o   'video-dvd' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_VIDEO_DVD'

       o   'harddrive' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_HARDDRIVE'

       o   'cdrom' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_CDROM'

       o   'floppy' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_FLOPPY'

       o   'zip' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_ZIP'

       o   'jaz' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_JAZ'

       o   'nfs' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_NFS'

       o   'autofs' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_AUTOFS'

       o   'camera' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_CAMERA'

       o   'memory-stick' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_MEMORY_STICK'

       o   'smb' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_SMB'

       o   'apple' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_APPLE'

       o   'music-player' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_MUSIC_PLAYER'

       o   'windows' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_WINDOWS'

       o   'loopback' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_LOOPBACK'

       o   'network' / 'GNOME_VFS_DEVICE_TYPE_NETWORK'

SEE ALSO

       Gnome2::VFS, Glib::Object

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003-2007 by the gtk2-perl team.

       This software is licensed under the LGPL.  See Gnome2::VFS for a full notice.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-11-15						   Gnome2::VFS::Drive(3pm)