On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:35:47PM +0100, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 24/04/09 13:03, Samuel Toogood wrote:
> Also, do check out rdiff-backup (It's in the repos).
>
> It does reverse incremental backups using rysnc:
> http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/non-gnu/rdiff-backup/
Dirvish is a simi
> Also, do check out rdiff-backup (It's in the repos).
I love it!
I'm going to have to rethink my original idea, due to the incremental vs
BackupExec files thing, but for a personal backup strategy, rdiff-backup
seems to be the ticket.
Nice & simple, like me!
(Okay, I'm not that nice.)
2009/4/24
On 24/04/09 13:03, Samuel Toogood wrote:
>
> doug livesey wrote
>> Hi -- I have a drive that gets a weekly backup of a Windows network
> stored to it, and I would like to have that backed up in turn remotely.
Also, do check out rdiff-backup (It's in the repos).
It does reverse incremental backup
doug livesey wrote
> Hi -- I have a drive that gets a weekly backup of a Windows network
stored to it, and I would like to have that backed up in turn remotely.
When you say 'a drive', is that on a windows box, or a linux box or a NAS?
> To that end, I have an IP address that I wish to sync it
Michael Holloway wrote:
> There is a command line tool for windows i think called "robocopy" (im
> not in the office to check). On my network I use a scheduled task of
> robocopy to backup windows machines to a local samba share, and then
> rsync that to replicate remotely. I do an incremental back
There is a command line tool for windows i think called "robocopy" (im
not in the office to check). On my network I use a scheduled task of
robocopy to backup windows machines to a local samba share, and then
rsync that to replicate remotely. I do an incremental backup which is
normally pretty quic
On 24/04/2009, doug livesey wrote:
> Hi -- I have a drive that gets a weekly backup of a Windows network stored
> to it, and I would like to have that backed up in turn remotely.
Rsync will do that. However Rsync is not native to MS-Windows, neither
is SSH/SCP which Rsync can operate over. You ma
Currently the backup I'll be syncing comes in at ~140gib, so it shouldn't be
too hard to ensure that we have at least twice that on the sync drive.
& I'll look into the --inplace option, cheers.
Thanks very much for your advice, there -- good to know I'm on the right
track!
Cheers,
Doug.
2009/4
doug livesey wrote:
> [...]
> I'd really appreciate any advice that folks could give me on this -- am
> I wrong in my ideas? would this even work? are there any hideous
> pitfalls awaiting me? is there a better way to do it? etc.
Hello, Doug.
I manage a network of 31 Ubuntu-based bioinformatics
Hi -- I have a drive that gets a weekly backup of a Windows network stored
to it, and I would like to have that backed up in turn remotely.
To that end, I have an IP address that I wish to sync it to, and can setup
any machine/OS behind it that I want to.
What I was hoping to do was to have the bac
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