Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

[Ward Poelmans <wpoely86@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 18:50, daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com> wrote:

> As a simple idea, cron task starts rsnapshot configured however.  When
> this is done, backup is tarballed, and tarball is given as like, say,
> 440 permissions, where users are in some useful 'backup' group, then
> while tarball can be read to be passed across server, if tarball is
> extracted, user has no more privs then they have on the system anyway
> (I'm not saying chmod -R).  Then local tarball can be removed or
> whatever.

It's not a bad idea, but you need enough free space on the client to
backup the entire system (which for me is not the case). Secondly,
every backup you do is a full backup as rsnapshot needs to access a
backup todo a incremental backup. You could mess around with something
like sshfs but's it's not great either. A straight rsync between
client and server could do it but it would suprise me if this doesn't
already exist in some form.

Regards,

Ward