[BlueOnyx:07942] Re: Incremental backups

[Richard Morgan]

Answers below...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darrell D. Mobley" <dmobley at uhostme.com>
To: "'BlueOnyx General Mailing List'" <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it>
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 10:12 PM
Subject: [BlueOnyx:07941] Re: Incremental backups


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-
>> bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Ken - Precision Web Hosting, Inc
>> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 3:37 PM
>> To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
>> Subject: [BlueOnyx:07939] Re: Incremental backups
>>
>> It seems like small differences in the .tar.gz files generated by
>> RaqBackup.sh would cause the rsync to re-transfer many of them.  So, I
>> think
>> that would mostly negate the transfer savings from using rsync.
>>
>> Possibly you could run RaqBackup.sh once  a week.
>> Then use rsync daily for the complete server files (excluding the
>> /home/raqbackup/ directory ).
>
> I don't trust my clients enough to just back them up once a week, some of
> them are capable of making a mistake every day. :-)
>
> I'll plod along with what I have, although I am thinking of modifying
> RaqBackup.sh to allow me to keep more than one day ON THE SERVER and have
> just the two days on remote FTP.  A recent mod someone suggested allowed 
> to
> save five days to the remote FTP and that's a bit much on the remote 
> storage
> site.

Since the last postings on a different thread, I've been working on a 
start.sh plugin which will do exactly the same as the offsite version:

Delete backup 3
Shuffle 2 to 3
Shuffle 1 to 2
Shuffle latest to 1
Leave raqbackup.sh run normally to create a new one (raqbackup will then 
never have to delete anything).

It's work in progress, but I'll look at it now and come up with something 
(don't think it'll be elegant - my scripts never are :o) ).

>
> I do like SolarSpeed and Compass Networks backup solutions that allow the
> site admins to perform their own backups in the GUI.  That's pretty nice.
>
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