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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:33:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system
From: Ward Poelmans <wpoely86@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 17:11, Ward Poelmans <wpoely86@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 16:41, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> A much better way is to run a dedicated agent on the client. If the server
>> needs to schedule backups, it can ask the agent to do so using regular tcp
>> traffic. The client can then do it's backup and rsync it over to the server
>> when it's done, and that push can be done as a regular user on both ends. The
>> actual backing up on the client must be done by root of course, no other user
>> has the necessary access.
If anyone is still interested, i had some time and this is what i did:
On the client:
rsync -a -X -b --backup-dir=../backup.0/ --link-dest=../backup.0/
/home/ward backupserver:Backup-Laptop/backup.cur/
ssh backupserver /home/ward/shiftbackups.sh
This makes a directory backup.cur on the backupserver with a full
backup in it, but it's exactly only a incremental backup as it
hardlinks from backup.0 (the previous backup). The script
shiftbackups.sh moves backup.0 to backup.1 and backup.cur to backup.0
and so on...
This does more or less exactly what i wanted.
Regards,
Ward