Re: Simple backups
On 5/10/05, Robert Tasarz <robert.tasarz@greentech.pl> wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:27:15PM +0200, schnitzel meister wrote:
> > Hello.
> > I have lots of hosts running Sarge.
> > The data on each of the hosts is generally in a defined location, the
> > rest of the machine is the same.
> >
> > I would like to run a regular job on each host to create an archive of
> > just these
> > unique files, as defined by a file which might look like:
> >
> > /etc/postfix/
> > /etc/someconfig.conf
> >
> > The archive would be collected by a remote scp nightly.
> >
> > I cannot find a package which does this task, I wondered if anyone
> > could suggest one?
> > If not, I'll write a script. Thanks.
>
> Why scp? IMHO rsync is much better option. Or if you want full snapshot
> backups (with history) for some dirs you can use (for example) dirvish
> from Sarge. And I think it's better to request backup of whole dir
> and define excludes for not needed files, than defining list of files
> for backup - it's much easier to mantain and if you backup too much you
> will loose some bandwith/disk space - in other case it might be painful
> to discover you didn't backup those few important files which you have
> created two days ago and forgot to add to your list...
>
> Regards,
> Robert Tasarz
Why scp? Because the backup machine will be completely dumb - all it
will do is collect a file (the archive) from each host.
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