Hi Engel, Yes rsync would work for this but if you are connecting to a server that has or can have rdiff-backup on it you may as well run rdiff-backup to that server and then again for the local copy. All from the original files.
I rdiff-backup all my home and server boxes to a /backup partition on one machine. Then rsync /backup to an encrypted portable hard drive. I also run with box A keeps box B's backups while box B keeps box A's backups. Naturally rsync must complete successfully for the mirror to be a mirror but rsync can recover from interruptions. This is why rsync is often used to start an rdiff-backup repository. Check out backupninja for setting up such backup systems. Cheers Gavin Engel Sanchez wrote: > Hello. I tried searching for this in the mailing list, but could not find a > definitive answer to my question, so... I am using rdiff-backup to backup to > a local directory. I would like to have this backup mirrored to another > server (and potentially mirrored a third time to another server with a > portable hard drive attached). Is it safe (and recommended) to just use rsync > for the mirror of the backup directory? What if rsync fails to finish a > session? Will the mirror of the backup directory end up in a consistent state > such that I can restore from it if necessary? If this is not feasible, then > I might try to simply run rdiff-backup from the remote server from the > original files and not the local backup. But I would prefer to mirror the > first backup if possible. Thanks in advance for any help/advice. > > Engel A. Sanchez > > > “Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or > baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing > and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be > an old man before you know it.” > > > http://engelsanchez.net > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki > > _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
