On 1/4/2012 1:28 AM, [email protected] wrote: > If it supports rsync with ssh transport, you should at least be able to > duplicate/push your local backup to their site, once the local backup is > complete. I do the reverse with my webserver, pulling its backups to my local > removable disk. But I guess you'd like to immediately store the backup > to a remote site. > > I don't know if dirvish natively supports vaults on remote hosts. And I also > don't know if this service can be mounted with 'sshfs' to a local > directory (which could then be used with dirvish). But as SCP is supposed to > work... maybe ;-)
A quick reminder about using any rsync-based backup solution is that rsync is only beneficial if rsync is used as the network transport. When using Dirvish or any other rsync-based backup solution to backup to a network filesystem including, but not limited to, NFS, CIFS/SMB, SSHFS, SCP and AFS, you loose the benefit of rsync's rolling checksums to compare individual pieces. Instead, when using a network filesystem, if it appears that a file might be modified, the entire file is transmitted across the wire, not just the small chunk that has been modified. Rsync is designed to be run with a daemon on the remote side that can communicate with the client-side rsync command that is run. SSH is used to invoke and communicate with that daemon, but it only works if rsync is installed on both sides and rsync or ssh is use to invoke it, scp nor sftp count as they are their own file transfer protocol. As for the original question, Dirvish is designed to be run on the computer storing the backup, not on the computer being backed up (which merely needs rsync installed.) An alternative that I recommend and has already been suggested in this thread is to use Dirvish locally and rsync the local vault to your off-site storage provider. You can use dirvish-expire to expire older backups, but still keep them on the remote site as long as you don't use --delete with rsync. This will give you fast access to recent backups, but slower access to all backups. You can manually expire older backups on your storage provider by just deleting the images as you desire. > _______________________________________________ > Dirvish mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish > -- Loren M. Lang [email protected] http://www.alzatex.com/ Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: 10A0 7AE2 DAF5 4780 888A 3FA4 DCEE BB39 7654 DE5B _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
