[Cialug] rsnapshot replication

David Champion dchamp1337 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 17:40:03 CST 2016


Crashplan is pretty nice. Yes it's not open-source, but there is no cost
for anything but backing up to their cloud service. So, local storage, to
your own server located off-site, or to a friend's computer (with their
permission) is all free of charge.

-dc

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:32 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Josh More wrote:
>
> > I had a similar failure years ago.  These days I use CrashPlan (not the
> > same, I know) and TarSnap (also not the same).
> >
> I glanced at CrashPlan some time ago, .. but I would prefer to work with
> base tools instead of dealing with commercial or quasi-commercial
> products.
>
> In this case, I think I figured out a solution:
>
>  * rsync daily.0 to the replication site as './current/'
>  * run a 2nd rsnapshot job to version 'current' on the rep site
>
> > Have you looked at ZFS for replication?
> >
> It's sweet, but no need for file-system replication, .. these are just
> home directories, configuration info, and common shares.
>
>         TFTR!
>
>         Lee
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