[Gllug] offsite backup services

[- Tethys]

On Dec 12, 2007 5:25 PM, Ryan Cartwright <ryan at crimperman.org> wrote:

> Based upon "find -mtime" estimates my server has about 12-14GB of
> modified/new data to backup each day. Thus I could see myself going
> above a typical hosting included bandwidth allowance (e.g. Bytemark's is
> 100GB/month) and upping that would increase the cost.

That's not necessarily a valid way of measuring churn. That'll tell
you the total size of files that have changed since the last backup.
On the other hand, rsync won't back up the whole file each day -- only
those parts of it that have changed. That's very unlikely to be the
whole file (although for some types of data, it might be -- only you
can say for sure).

Tet

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