On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:57:31PM -0700, Steve B wrote:
> Can anyone recommend one of the free, online backup service providers? I
> would like to tar up all of my config files, custom scripts, etc any time
> they change and then upload them to some place offsite. I do not need a lot
> of space....1GB would be more than sufficient. It would need to be a service
> that I can use SSH, FTP or some other protocol to transfer the data.
If you have a *nix system at home and connectivity to your server,
there's no reason not to just pull your backups down. Here is a basic
script I use for my own server.
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#!/bin/sh
# DayOfWeek
DOW=`date +%w`
DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
ssh r...@foobar.com "dump ${DOW}ufa - / | /usr/local/bin/bzip2" | \
dd of=/backups/dumps/colo2-root-${DOW}-${DATE}.bz2
ssh r...@foobar.com "dump ${DOW}ufa - /home | /usr/local/bin/bzip2" | \
dd of=/backups/dumps/colo2-home-${DOW}-${DATE}.bz2
ssh r...@foobar.com "dump ${DOW}ufa - /var | /usr/local/bin/bzip2" | \
dd of=/backups/dumps/colo2-var-${DOW}-${DATE}.bz2
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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net/
