From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NBBbK-0005vs-6i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:19:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1124BE0B51; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:19:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f171.google.com (mail-px0-f171.google.com [209.85.216.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D33EAE0B51 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:19:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi1 with SMTP id 1so1670474pxi.32 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:19:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=11aiLw00hP/s/IHusRN8dBAfssP5aIeM9wYLVURvQgM=; b=C436T06GcvIVSMFtx9PMJjZJJSBCwMjs/7mxQSsoFJrwtT9G5tfWTNbT27WpsCprFh paHCuyHPIhOc2/SjnizGZ1v/uIAu8O7mOa9kB38rEacp58VCfprpk7HFxAErnw5/gAx+ /eUv4Un9o+plSJEfQqkLciwqjoshIU4plBYIQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=f7jZ5VOMJxlYKovGQ6aAoLRHPB13HmjoXwtl3S2VWvLnOw84RQLgTEE0ikl+m18rLI 9z/sLOKGmVMRl2G8b2JjaIG6zzLvupcr9k2dPciVxyf3mNBsuhd7esybAFnTsexHs29a Jw+kNcVxkEuFDZ4fSXc3QnbvvERg5n+Huha1s= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.114.33.14 with SMTP id g14mr312433wag.124.1258654740404; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:19:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20091119172558.45ac3a44@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <49bf44f10911190844i5cb77185me60d5eb44ff2bfc7@mail.gmail.com> <20091119172558.45ac3a44@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:19:00 -0800 Message-ID: <49bf44f10911191019ncb3b871md0f81dc16bc3d76a@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: f13eb1c2-f08f-4e2a-99ab-a51734403241 X-Archives-Hash: 9acfe01c336aef5c57248df748b26033 >> 2. Some of the files I back up only allow root to read. =A0I can run >> rsync as root on each system, but I don't allow root logins. =A0This >> means in order to rsync the second "sync" system with the first "sync" >> system, I must run the rsync command from the first "sync" system. >> This means I have to run rsyncd on the second "sync" system in >> addition to the first "sync" system. =A0I'd rather only run one instance >> of rsyncd. =A0Can anyone think of another option? > > Allow root logins only with a key, set up a specific user on the backup > server to run the backup tasks and add that users key to the > authorized_users file on the machine to be backed up. > >> 3. The rsync process always completes with "rsync error: some >> files/attrs were not transferred". =A0How can I get more information >> about which files this pertains to? > > Run rsync with the verbose option and direct stdout and stderr to files. > >> 5. If I end up with filesystem corruption on the SRC system, will that >> corruption transfer over to the DST system during an rsync, or will >> the transfer just fail? > > If data is corrupted, that will be backed up. If the filesystem > corruption causes read errors, rsync will bail out. > >> 6. Can I run rsyncd on a system facing the internet without fear? > > Yes, as long as the rsync ports are closed in your router. > > Instead of all this, I'd recommend BackupPC. It handles all of your > issues and more and is efficient at backing up multiple machines. You > could run one BackupPC server and then rsync its store to the backup > backup server. The latest version in portage is old, get the 3.x ebuild > from bgo. BackupPC does look pretty good. Would anyone recommend I *don't* can this whole thing and set up BackupPC instead? - Grant