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 1Nl0n4-00066y-6v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:03:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 561B6E0B26 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:03:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f178.google.com (mail-pz0-f178.google.com [209.85.222.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E5EE08E8 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:23:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk8 with SMTP id 8so44470pzk.11 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:23:29 -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=6KmNKCw7qrxHTtgArHlS1KvBrNhzo1BvlFQ3gMtrFro=; b=k7eEzY98kj3sjW6UH+gT2/jX502TgL6NnaQyHYmV/1IwovxHj3K/ZrD8HwsyLLrLJk /ddd/K72f+bhS1T/u/MbvuIlPWqguxXGMuF0ukozeVfcBQur5PmevEpn6skCMknzg1pq Lbs/TMtbOpFeHFfloRDX+MSBoZdO3x2aqVeEw= 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=wXKw/lQUtc18IK8IWs+21PWpALOpFZj8d5QsTlDXI0CYNtemEKD2+vU+CoAOaEw0qb OUyYEy0eFh04G+RNQ0E5r6FgEFNLpf62FTQbBQrR0XqI6GyLQybhykm0VKPnUx4DuksV kqYZDeh8tasP/N2c7wg6wUozzGZnE5PfWAlrw= 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 10.141.109.16 with SMTP id l16mr192355rvm.167.1267190609047; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:23:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <3ac129341002250950h376f57d5y241e6efeb7080b20@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10911190844i5cb77185me60d5eb44ff2bfc7@mail.gmail.com> <20100224205159.71dd79be@digimed.co.uk> <201002251741.13525.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <3ac129341002250950h376f57d5y241e6efeb7080b20@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:23:29 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system From: Ward Poelmans To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 1dacde59-764d-445a-9b7d-11ee555abab2 X-Archives-Hash: 0dc196256be2cd8c39cbe956cffb9483 On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 18:50, daid kahl wrote: > As a simple idea, cron task starts rsnapshot configured however. =C2=A0Wh= en > 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). =C2=A0Then 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