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 1NBVzU-0000JM-SE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:05:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15EF7E09A2; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:05:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f47.google.com (mail-pw0-f47.google.com [209.85.160.47]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB4DE09A2 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:05:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi9 with SMTP id 9so2383390pwi.26 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:05:27 -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=8lVL8SL17J1cK2jTCFzU706ioEe7g+gFdUG3fd39Ulc=; b=i7w9DJjnS6SAwmYcs9PeaCMUXK+INsruogEmzauxAqLmmRsGIENGpw25vsBMZaLZ+K SBKe2lDHp+e50UhdLuRlkm6kZMro57J4ShBVh7qlZnxYu1tLA9/kdI5lQMQp89y/cV3P +IYKtPZfIxUBWu9Ouj4ammuFS6Fapij+kEltU= 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=JtAW68n5obqvJobxC2Jqm2zelBFcFQISbA82Jj2i49gHTyVKr80gyA19qgQIwbaPJU o/+9ceLv/Mcu2zTbLYaE73/PYCutP2ErfqQ/S85i7Ds6DVAX9OCDnbtd5MqTDHv5zcnv 4VfwssyitXQ0TG/j+cemSV6Xc7pQphPPLvBRs= 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 10.115.86.7 with SMTP id o7mr2164008wal.50.1258733127041; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:05:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20091119172558.45ac3a44@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <49bf44f10911190844i5cb77185me60d5eb44ff2bfc7@mail.gmail.com> <20091119172558.45ac3a44@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:05:27 -0800 Message-ID: <49bf44f10911200805u55dfe4e1j1a7b61928ea568e5@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: e112a331-8003-453c-8a1d-e18d7439a263 X-Archives-Hash: 729c5b6694402c2ec81e8eb6284ad1ac >> 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. How is BackupPC to set up? Is it a whole new world to explore, or can it be set up quickly and easily? - Grant