>-----Original Message----- >From: Geoff Shang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Shang >Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:07 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Recommendations for incremental backups > >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. >
Have you had a look at BackupPC? If the desktop machines are Linux, you run rsyncd on each desktop, exporting the directories that need to be backed-up. Then install and configure BackupPC on the server to grab those directories as often as you want, using rsync, with as many incremental and full backups as you need. It handles the incr/full business quite easily. >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. > Since rsync does compression, bandwidth use is kept to a minimum. -- Micha >Any advice appreciated. > >Geoff. > ================================================================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]
