[Leaplist] duplicity recommendation

[Steve Litt]

Yeah, what you have to do is devote a LOCAL machine to be the backup server, 
and burn DVDs or tapes from that machine. The benefit of a backup server is 
backups are lightning fast and don't tax any production machines. Having a 
backup server doesn't relieve the need for removable media backups because 
otherwise the backup server represents a single point of failure, and also 
because you need offsite backups in case of hurricane, earthquake, burglery 
etc.

SteveT

On Sunday 13 January 2008 10:38, Hank Lambert wrote:
> We tried using rsync at work to backup a server at a remote location. It
> didn't work for us, but that had nothing to do with rsync. Rsync worked
> perfect, but the slow WAN link and high amount of changing data caused
> rsync to constantly fall behind, it just couldn't keep up. I believe it
> would do great for a single computer or small home network.
>
> Hank Lambert
> KB4MTO
> Certified Geek
>
> Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Saturday 12 January 2008 15:38, Dan Cherry wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I've been doing my backups with tar over ssh, and started looking into
> >> rsync. Debian admin mentioned a pkg called 'duplicity' which uses rsync.
> >> Anyone with experience using 'duplicity', care to comment on whether
> >> it's worked for them, or if there are any drawbacks (or showstoppers)?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Dan
> >
> > I don't know anything about duplicity, but I've used rsync for over a
> > year, and it works great:
> >
> > http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/lpm/200609/200609.htm
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > Steve Litt
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