On 28 Sep 2004, at 10:20, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> Never one to miss an opportunity to plug my blog, I covered this topic
> a while back, take a look here:
>>http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/2004/06/02/easy-automated-snapshot-style-> backups-with-rsync/
Thanks Donncha. I must take a look at this. I was discussing this at
the weekend with Ronan Cunniffe who replaced amanda with such an rsync
setup. I still use amanda for dailies but will use this setup for
archival backup. However, there is one disadvantage - I have amanda
compressing the backups using gzip, and compression is done on the
clients. So I get good disk utilisation, and minimal backup server
load. Is there any way of getting rsync to do compression, I wonder? I
guess you'd have to some something like a DoubleSpace style disk driver
for Linux. I'm sure I've heard of such a thing but I'm not sure how
much I'd trust it.
Niall
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