[nycbug-talk] Backup service

[csnyder]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Matt Juszczak <matt at atopia.net> wrote:
> >> rsync -ab --delete --numeric-ids --exclude=tmp/*
>  >> --backup-dir=../archive/2008-02-29 --stats -e "ssh -l foobar" /home
>  >> /etc /var/log /usr/local 192.168.1.24:backup/
>
>  Is this a push or pull method?
>

Push. Each host has an account on the backup server that it can access
via public key, restricted to rsnyc.

I would rather use pull since control and monitoring are simpler, but
I don't want a backup server that has root access to all the hosts it
is archiving. Trying to coordinate an initial local backup to userland
before the pull makes pull much more complex.

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Chris Snyder
http://chxo.com/