Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 21:59:14 +0200 (CEST) From: "David E. Meier" <dev@eth0.ch> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote backup hosting setup? Message-ID: <1067.81.63.70.20.1091649554.squirrel@81.63.70.20> In-Reply-To: <868ycupzlk.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> References: <005501c479b5$6c0f4cc0$6401a8c0@Nomad> <20040804100300.3af0d4fb@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> <868ycupzlk.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>
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> So I've been thinking of having maybe 5 different copies at the > destination and rsyncing to a different one each night so I have 5 > different "backups" to go to -- just like in the days of > tape. Something conceptually like: > > rsync -avR --delete / remote:/BACKUP/`expr $dayofyear % 5`/ > > Yeah, you need to store 5x copies of your client's data, but disk is > cheap. Run rsnapshot at the remote destination on the backup directory. You get full daily versions at the cost of only another incremental backup. Check out http://www.rsnapshot.org/ We use this setup to backup our servers and it works perfect. Dave.
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