Subject: Re: Software for off-site backups
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
From: Skylar Thompson <skylar@cs.earlham.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/17/2007 16:28:50
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Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 	Hello,
>=20
> I'm looking for a software for NetBSD to create off-site backups of my
> server at home. Because the upstream bandwidth of my A-DSL line isn't
> that high I'm searching for something which supports deltas and
> compression like "rsync" does.
>=20
> Why am I not using "rsync"? I want to keep multiple copies on the
> target system (also NetBSD) without wasting too much diskspace.
> It would also be nice to be able to preserve the ownership of a
> directory or file without having to use "root" on the remote machine.
>=20
> I've considered a script which does something like this:
> 1.) Clone existing backup into a new directory by creating identical
>     directories and hardlinks to the existing files.
> 2.) Use "rsync" to update that.
>=20
> But I'm wondering whether somebody else has already done that. And
> it would of course not preserve the ownerships.
>=20
> 	Kind regards
>=20

I've used rsnapshot with a lot of success, and it covers all your
requirements.

http://www.rsnapshot.org/

--=20
-- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu)
-- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/


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