Well, since I seem to be on a roll this morning with the dirvish mailing list participation and since I'm still hoping for one of those pink ponies, I thought I'd bring up another backup situation/need.
Once again I am trying to PUSH a backup to another server. I am trying to configure some remote rsync disk space ( a la rsync.net ) to store backups. I know that dirvish is meant as a pull solution but I was wondering if anyone out there had configured it to push backups? I know that the point of pull backups is that the backup server is configured to be secure and just pushing a backup means it isn't. But what about incorporating something like duplicity? Maybe incorporating is not the correct word and maybe even the thought of adding the functionality of Duplicity to Dirvish is just a wacky idea. But I thought I'd throw it out there. It would be one way to PUSH backups. Duplicity: Duplicity backs up directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses librsync <http://sourceforge.net/projects/librsync>, the incremental archives are space efficient and only record the parts of files that have changed since the last backup. Because duplicity uses GnuPG <http://www.gnupg.org/> to encrypt and/or sign these archives, they will be safe from spying and/or modification by the server. (waiting for the cries of, "Just use dirvish for pulls and duplicity for pushes. Why are you bothering the list with that Duplicity python nonsense! No more fru-fru drinks with little umbrellas for you! And for sure you don't get your pink pony now. ) -- Richard (seemingly always too caffeinated) _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
