[Gllug] offsite backup services

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(at the risk of repeating myself) : likewise dirvish:

http://www.dirvish.org/

it's a decent frontend to rsync and has saved me and many users
from the odd moronic incident. Most recently typing crontab -r instead
of crontab -e.

tid.



On 29/01/2008, James Holland <holland.james at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-12 at 17:53 +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I use rdiff-backup for most of my backups these days. In your case you
> could use it to mirror your samba server to a machine in a remote London
> office. I normally create the mirror first using rsync --partial
>
> In the past I've used plain rsync and scripts based on:
> http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
>
> You might also want to check out http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
>
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