[Techtalk] differential backups...

[Conor Daly]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:01:29PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Walt thought:
> James (jas at spamcop.net) wrote:
> 
> >rsync is probably the tool you're after. Set up an rsync server on one 
> >machine
> >(probably the IDE one), then run rsync as a client on the other machine.
> >
> 
> I can just set it up as a rsync server and sync
> from one location to another, possibly...?

You don't need to set up an rsync _server_ at all.  So long as the rsync
program exists at each end (in Walt's case it's the same copy), the
remote end will run in _server_ mode.  rsync uses rsh commands to do the
network bit so it only needs rsh access to work.

Of course, rsh access accross the 'net is not a good thing so,
fortunately, rsync will (if asked) use ssh instead.  This is the preferred
option for rsync accross the internet.

BTW. It might be worthwhile having a look at mondoarchive
(http://www.mondorescue.org) which can backup (and restore from bare
metal) most multi-disk configurations out there.  It handles RAID, LVM and
more.

Conor
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