Hi Marcus,
I've setup backup to another server @hetzner I operate, but I'd rather have a second backup machine in case there's a problem with backup or if I happen to be on a prolongued holiday during a crash.
The backup system I use is based on ssh+rsync plus a little utility called 'powershift' (part of http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/rlbackup/). You'd need to make sure ssh+recent rsync are running on the server and install powershift; I can then do a test run from the SqF box.
The backup system uses hardlinked trees. The idea is that if the backup starts using too much space, you rm -rf the oldest versions. Easy enough :)
On 9/30/05, Marcus Denker denker@iam.unibe.ch wrote:
Am 30.09.2005 um 12:35 schrieb Cees De Groot:
Hi,
Now that we're betting everything on one horse, box2, it's maybe time to think about backups.
Technically, I'm using rsync+powershift to backup my personal Hetzner box to another Hetzner box, and this works great. I can set it up for box2 as well, but we do need someone to donate backup space... Any takers?
I think I can use both the new server here at SCG and the server of squeak-ev.de for backup... the squeakev one is a hetzner server, but it might have not too much free space. The new SCG Xserver has lots of free space, so this should ne no problem.
Marcus