[Wolves] Backing up over a WAN connection

[leei at webmail.co.za]

Hi Alastair,

Thank you for your e-mail.

We do not have a good latency between the sites that need to be backed up.
Can you suggest anything?

Thanks,
Lee



> leei at webmail.co.za wrote:
>> How does one do a backup over a WAN connection with latency for servers
>> across the world and create an image of the entire system including SQL.
>> What Linux free software will do the above for us. We have tried rdiff
>> and
>> that does not work.
>
> I use rsync nightly to replicate our office server's /data/ directory to
> a backup store on a remote webserver, via our ADSL link. If you use a
> tool such as mysqldump to create a text version of the database prior to
> running the rsync that would keep that up to date also.
> --
> Alastair Battrick
> http://www.aj8.org
>
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