Julio Cesar Ody wrote:
Hi all,
I have a backup server in my LAN that keeps some rsnapshot
(www.rsnapshot.org) backups. For those of you who don't know the tool,
rsnapshot works by taking incremental backups, hard linking the files
that don't change from one backup to the next (thus, keeping the
consecutive backups smaller than the first big one.)
I want to send these backups to a remote server every day or so. I
tried scp'ing it, but scp resolves the hard links, causing me
headaches and too much space to be used in my remote server. I then
tried SSHFS (sshfs.sourceforge.net), and the same thing happened. Same
applies to SHFS.
I know NFS would keep the hard links instead of resolving them (cp
-d), but I'm not up to put NFS over the internet since that can be a
bad idea from the security standpoint. So my question is: is there a
way for me to make that transfer and keep the hard links?
you could use rdiff-backup (rdiff-backup.org) which works the same sort
of way, but gives you a few extra features. and of course works over ssh
by default
dave
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