Further clarification:
The total local backup currently takes up 75GB (clearly cleaning that up needs to be on the todo list)
We also make a backup of squeaksource.com which comes to 9GB currently. That was supposed to be reciprocal but they couldn't get it to work.
Ken
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: [Box-Admins] Permissions From: "Ken Causey" ken@kencausey.com Date: Sat, February 05, 2011 3:21 pm To: "Squeak Hosting Support" box-admins@lists.squeakfoundation.org Cc: Chris Muller ma.chris.m@gmail.com
I said:
Well, that depends on what you feel needs to be backed up. Some might feel the entire system should be backed up and that is currently 122GB. I'm satisfied if /home/ /etc/ /usr/local/ /var/www/ /root/ and /var/lib/mailman/ are backed up at minimum.
Oops, 122GB includes the local backup. You can at least take off a third of that and perhaps half.
Ken
Hi all!
Yes, we used rsnapshot earlier, but all though it uses rsync (good for partial file changes) it ends up using hardlinks etc on the target and thus consumes quite a bit of space there.
For my local needs (laptop onto a USB vfat drive) I ended up picking Duplicity the other day. But either way we want a solution that transfers only modifications.
I would be happy with a solution that simply keeps an offsite "mirror". Rsnapshot gave us "history" too, and sure, if we can use it then it is probably a good choice. Ken suspected transfers were large, but I am unsure, I hope they are not and that it uses rsync for the actual transfer.
Currently I don't have a proper broadband, but if we set up something that can run "night time" off to people "home computers", then that should be enough I think. The reason we used a server that my former employer had was that it was also a Hetzner box so the connection was really good.
regards, Göran
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