I am trying to weekly rsync my files from the firewire drive on my Powerbook to the mini. I am using my Mac Mini and its Firewire drive as a backup set of my laptop. I have had trouble with the rsync choking on large initial copies. Not sure what is up with that. Some of the replications needed to be ran 3-5 times before they would complete. I have had better luck with the weekly updates. I guess with less file coping I get less errors. It kind of works for now, so I wont go crazy trying to debug it more.
I have a few more items to replicate but most of the important stuff is done.