howdie people. I'm keeping a hosted machine with no backup medium on board and I was wondering if what I'm using to back it up makes sense... I am using a mix of rsync mirroring of actual files (like the various websites) and an rsync of a gzip of a daily dump of the mySQL and logs. the idea that the mySQL dump should have minimal diff (even when compressed) and rsync should do a good job at it.
the server creates the backup on the local disk by cron and then another cronjob on my home machine rsyncs the data. is there a better system? emphasis here is on low bandwidth for the daily backup - as much information with as little byte exchange on the costly line, hence the choice of Rsync. if there is a better trick I'd be happy to know. second, I wanted to start looking into how much bandwidth is taken. the server has been up for nearly 40 days at Actcom now, and the eth0 statistics show 3GiB transmitted, although the stats of my most loaded virtual website say 117G has gone through... at least according to webalyzer and Apache. am I checking in the wrong place? I'd like to install MRTG to meter exactly whet my line usage is (only one NIC, very simplistic), what is the best place to read this info from? Thanks, Ira. -- The art of war Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
