[Gllug] offsite backup services

Richard Huxton dev at archonet.com
Wed Dec 12 17:53:40 UTC 2007


Ryan Cartwright 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.

Get a copy of rdiff-backup and run it to some spare disk for a week or 
two - with the right settings that'll tell you the total size of changed 
files and the amount of data transferred.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd
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