On Thu 06 January 2011 11:16:49 Freddie Cash wrote: > Just run rsync on the backup server, tell it to connect via ssh to the > remote server, and rsync / (root filesystem) into /backups/htpc/ (or > whatever directory you want). Use an exclude file to exclude the > directories you don't want backed up (like /proc, /sys, /dev).
> Then repeat the rsync process the next day, into the exact same > directory. Only files that have changed will be transferred. Then > snapshot the filesystem using the current date. Kool. > > Also with this system, I'm concerned that if there is corruption on the > > HTPC, it could be propagated to the backup server. Is there some way to > > address this? Longer intervals to sync, so I have a chance to discover? > > Using snapshots on the backup server allows you to go back in time to > recover files that may have been accidentally deleted, or to recover > files that have been corrupted. How? I can see that rsync will not transfer the files that have not changed, but I assume it transfers the changed ones. How can you go back in time? Is there like a snapshot file that records the state of all files there? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
