I've used a couple of differant tools for this type of job. For a simple rsync backup like you mentioned I would use unison instead http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ it works by propogating changes more like cvs than just plain old rsync.
Or the current solution that I've used to do backups of remote servers is backuppc http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ which has a combination of command line and web based tools. I recently had to do a full restore from this tool and was very impressed with how well it went. Kyle T. Smith On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:11:49 -0700, "Garrett P. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Situation: > We have a file server with a 1.6TB drive array. The data is crucial to > our company. It runs on a RAID 5 array with a hot spare and a battery > backed write cache. The underlying filesystem is Reiser3. Basically, I'm > not terribly worried about standard hardware failure. However, there > still remains the possibility for things like fire which pay no heed to > Reiser's atomic transactioning. And there's still the concern for human > behavior. ("What? Of COURSE I'm sure I want to delete that directory!") > > Proposed Solution: > Build an identical server with another huge array. Put it out at a > remote branch. Have a nightly cron job that runs rsync or something to > copy over new data or files which have been changed (but to not > replicate deleted files). > > Question: > Does anyone have any suggestions or prior experience they wish to share? > > Thanks, > Garrett Taylor > IS Director > Western Title Company > (775) 324-6930 xt. 2252 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.westerntitle.net <http://www.westerntitle.net/> > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is > for the sole use of the intended recipient (s) and may contain confidential > and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender via reply email and destroy all copies of the original > message. > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
