- If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote
backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step.
That's why I use rdiff-backup.
Yes, me too, but *inside* the encrypted container.
- If you have disconnection during the rsync step (happened to me last
Neil Bothwick wrote:
- If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote
backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step.
That's a potential problem with any form of backup, local or remote. The
truly paranoid would use two different backup methods on two
Neil Bothwick wrote:
I'm currently using it with a local server. If I decide to use the
backups on a remote server too, I'll probably stick to backing up to the
local server and then using rsync. It makes sense to have a copy of the
backup locally and only use the much slower option of restoring
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:34:49 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
There are at least two drawbacks to using rsync for mirroring the local
backup to a remote host:
- If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote
backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step.
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 09:34 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
I'm currently using it with a local server. If I decide to use the
backups on a remote server too, I'll probably stick to backing up to the
local server and then using rsync. It makes sense to have a copy of the
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:44:05 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
- If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote
backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step.
That's why I use rdiff-backup.
rdiff-backup isn't really suitable for offsite backups because
on Friday 04/18/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:34:49 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
There are at least two drawbacks to using rsync for mirroring the local
backup to a remote host:
- If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 09:54 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:44:05 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
- If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote
backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step.
That's why I use rdiff-backup.
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:06:39 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
rdiff-backup isn't really suitable for offsite backups because it
uses no compression, making the space and bandwidth requirements
double those of other methods. It also uses no encryption.
It uses compression (gzip), but only
Neil Bothwick wrote:
I'm now testing app-backup/boxbackup,
which seems good so far.
Please report your findings on the list! I'm not all too happy about my
current solution (rdiff-backup locally to a filesystem over dmcrypt,
loopback-mounted from a file, followed by an rsync over ssh to a
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:57:47 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
I'm now testing app-backup/boxbackup,
which seems good so far.
Please report your findings on the list! I'm not all too happy about my
current solution (rdiff-backup locally to a filesystem over dmcrypt,
loopback-mounted from a
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