On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:44:53PM -0700, David King wrote:
> >It's time to come clean and admit that parts/most of rsync are
> >lost on me. [...]
> >How can I automate the backup via rsync to other servers?
>
> Depending on the backup strategy that you want, I highly recommend
> rsnapshot (/usr/ports/sysutils/rsnapshot <http://www.rsnapshot.org/
> >). It handles most of the management of retaining past backups up
> to X days, X weeks, etc, and uses hardlinks to save space between the
> backups. So because it uses rsync, it uses the bandwidth of an
> incremental backup, but because it uses directory trees of hardlinks,
> each backup is completely restorable like a full backup.
>
One problem may be semantics. I'm not certain if I want directory
/etc/* synchronized on servers A and B, or if I just want a
100%-guaranteed backup ... . Since I do 99% of stuff on
tao, I want every other (possible) server to sync up my ~/* files
on other machines. The build and config files I just want tar'd up
and moved to, say, /usr/tmp/tao, /usr/tmp/sage, usr/tmp/zen, and
so on. This stuff is what I would like done at least daily.
I'll look at rsnapshot. A very big (*)++plus is that Dru
wrote it. That mean it's thoroughly first rate.
Around 10 hrs sleep in three days just don' cut it.
--
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix
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