rsync (http://www.samba.org/rsync/) should do what you want (and is probably already installed, and tunnels over an ssh connection for extra security, and has other features that probably make it a perfect match for your needs as well :)
On 3/9/06, Julio Cesar Ody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > > Thanks. > > > -- > Julio C. Ody > http://rootshell.be/~julioody > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > -- There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself - Zhasper, 2005 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
