Hi,
I'd like some suggestions on how to handle incremental backups.
I manage two servers for an american non-profit which are based in a data
warehouse in California. They also have a Linux box in their Washington
office which is managed by someone else. The organisation would like me to
organise backups of the office machine on one of the servers.
I was going to use a simple rsync process, but as far as I can see it, it
would have to run as root on my end in order to be able to write to
directories owned by other people. I'm rather disinclined to do this as
I've seen the person who is managing the other machine make mistakes before
and I'd rather any mistakes made on the servers I manage weren't made as
root.
So I'm looking for alternatives.
I don't mind setting up processes to run as root on the machine to be
backed up, in fact I don't see that I've got much choice about that.
I was thinking that I could perhaps make daily incremental tarballs, with a
full backup once a month or something, as bandwidth is a bit limited at the
office site (though exactly how much I'm about to find out). But I've not
had experience making incremental backups so would like suggestions as to
the best schemes to use, etc.
Any advice appreciated.
Geoff.
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