[BlueOnyx:07941] Re: Incremental backups

[Darrell D. Mobley]

> -----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
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> 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.

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.