Re: [CentOS] ultimate backup choice

2010-12-12 Thread Nicholas
Mathias, Did you manage to implement the backup? Do let us know how it went. FYI, rsync is a good choice because it is available on all popular distros and works fast in doing the backups. One advice is that you look out for differences in the trailing

Re: [CentOS] ultimate backup choice

2010-12-12 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:12:11PM +0800, Nicholas wrote: Please post in text to mailing lists. Please see http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16 John -- Normally the beautiful days in life come

[CentOS] ultimate backup choice

2010-12-11 Thread S Mathias
i have: SERVER A SERVER B with full root permisson [ssh, etc] each server has a folder. i want to backup a folder in SERVER A. are there any backup methods, that meets these two requirements? : 1) running from e.g.: a cronjob 2) when running, it just checks the folder in SERVER A and SERVER

Re: [CentOS] ultimate backup choice

2010-12-11 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 04:17:42AM -0800, S Mathias wrote: are there any backup methods, that meets these two requirements? : Rsync will handle this situation perfectly. man rsync for information and working examples.

Re: [CentOS] ultimate backup choice

2010-12-11 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 S Mathias said the following on 11/12/10 13:17: are there any backup methods, that meets these two requirements? : rsync metts and exceeds the requirements you can run rsync over ssh to secure the data transfer and rsync can transfer only the diff

Re: [CentOS] ultimate backup choice

2010-12-11 Thread David Sommerseth
On 11/12/10 13:17, S Mathias wrote: i have: SERVER A SERVER B with full root permisson [ssh, etc] each server has a folder. i want to backup a folder in SERVER A. are there any backup methods, that meets these two requirements? : 1) running from e.g.: a cronjob 2) when running, it