[TriLUG] Pony request: Backup Solution

[Matt Pusateri]

rsnapshot rocks!

Give us more info:

1. Why don't you want to use ssh?,  What transport mechanism do you want 
to use?
2. Why do you want to use rsyncd?

rsnapshot seems to all your other needs mentioned.  rsnapshot will work 
with scripts, so you might be able to script around your needs, but for 
the most part it's a pull method over ssh.

I can probably give some info of how I implemented it at $work.

Matt P.


John Broome wrote:
> I've been looking at all of the rsync-based backup programs and I
> haven't found one that does exactly what I need.
>
> Here's the wish list:
>
> Works with rsyncd, i don't want to use ssh for the transport.
> I'd like to push the backups offsite.
> Incremental backups with hard links to save space
> Backups are kept as live files instead of .tar or .gz
>
> I really like rsnapshot, but i haven't seen how to get it to work with rsyncd.
>
> I'm open to any suggestions, thanks trilug!
>
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