The main reason I was going to use rsync was so that I could (essentially) resume the sync after the connection drops... I am presuming it will over the week or so it will take to backup the 50-100 Gb.
Andy On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Steven S. Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > If this is a one off process, why bother with rsync at all. rsync is > for synchronizing data repeatedly. > > Why not something like use some incantation of tar to get the files you > need into a stream on stdout and pipe that through ssh to your remote > machine and have the remote side of ssh put the file on disk for you. > > tar -cvj /archive/dir | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat >backup.tar.bz > ' > > This is how you do a remote store of a locally create tar bzipped archive. > > Critch > > ----- "Andrew Farnsworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Speed is not really an issue here as this will be a one off process > > rather > > than something I do on a regular basis. It is going to take a long > > time no > > matter what as I will be backing up 50-100 Gb of data. I recently > > realised > > that I have been dumping stuff to this box for a long time and have > > never > > made a backup of it. So, I thought I would back it up prior to > > upgrading / > > updating it. > > > > Thanks for the link, it does look like a good hands on howto. > > > > Andy > > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Evan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Tunneling over ssh would take longer because of the overhead of ssh. > > I have > > > never really set up rsync before but this howto looks pretty > > > straightforward. http://transamrit.net/docs/rsync/ of course > > depending on > > > distro (and if i am reading right you are going to do this to a > > mac?) things > > > will be different. > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Andrew Farnsworth > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > > > >> I am trying to backup my server on the internet and was thinking of > > using > > >> rsync. At the moment I need to backup a single volume but was > > considering > > >> doing the entire server. Can someone point me in the direction of > > a good > > >> intro to using rsync along with information on which ports I need > > to open in > > >> the firewall to allow this to happen? Though I guess I could just > > tunnel it > > >> over my SSH session now that I think about it... > > >> > > >> Thanks and MAIH... > > >> > > >> Andy > > >> > > >> > > > > > -- > Steven Critchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
