> What I've been wanting to do is upload the daily diffs offsite, but we > just can't get enough bandwidth to push that much data over the wire, > even if we give ourselves all day to do it... we're talking about 4G of > data on a daily basis... > > We're w/ Comcast and our upload is limited to 768k... > > What alternatives are out there that would let me push this much data > around?
I had exactly that problem-- I was pushing 4-9GB data backups from my servers to my home connection as a backup. I finally got smart and setup an rsync server instead-- now only the CHANGES are compressed, sent, etc. rsync is smart enough that it only sends the changed portions of files, not blindly files that have changed, so you should see a lot less bandwidth consumption with it. Most Linux distribs ship with rsync, I believe, and cygwin has it available for Windows. I use cygwin with cron/rsync/sshd to do this on my windows boxes, rsyncing to a linux box, and did the same from linux to linux and cygwin to cygwin in the past. My backups are now up-to-date daily, offsite-- my servers are backed up to my office, and my office is backed up to my servers(hundreds of miles apart). It's actually fast enough you could have the job run hourly to have even more up-to-date backups... :-) -- Derek _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
