On 9/23/05, Joel Ebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd recommend a push from the laptop so you can initiate it easily from > the laptop. Just a simple script to rsync the folders you want backed > up would do the trick. And you can either run it on your own or add a > cron job to do it, but you'd have to remember that it would only work > when the laptop was running and connected. So you may have to do it > manually on occasion. If you aren't connected, the rsync would just > fail. I'd use something like: > rsync -avz --delete > for each folder you want backed up so what's on your server is identical > to what's on your laptop for those folders. You can add some excludes > if you want to not back up some things inside those folders. Then if > you want to have some rolling hard links you can do all that on the > server side against the rsync you just made.
Well I did a little googling and ran across backuppc http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ Which looks pretty sophisticated. It pulls from the server, but also detects the presence/absence of clients. Clients can be *nix, or Windows or a mix. Data transfer can be via, tar, rsync, rsyncd, or smb. It also has a cgi admin interface by which you can check status, and schedule backups and restores. You can even authorize users to schedule backup ops for particular clients via this interface. A certain amount of server config Does anyone have any familiarity with backuppc. It looks like it does everything I'm looking for except for on-the-road backups, which I guess would require setting up a vpn connection rather than just ssh. -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
