Yes, I stumbled onto rsnapshot while Googling rsync for backups, so if it's
considered non-harmful I'll be using it (just reading the howto now, and
I've found a nice "for Ubuntu" howto as well)
You're bringing up bandwidth has me intruiged - my personal VPS has very
little traffic currently, and until we migrate the VA to the other VPS
neither does it. I would guess "intra-Bitfolk" traffic will affect both
ends (upload for one being download for the other), so I'd guess I'm best
off getting an initial snapshot while the VA VPS is quiet - that'll be the
big data hit after all.
References:
How to install rsnapshot on Ubuntu 12.04:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-rsnapshot-on-ubuntu-12-04
rsnapshot howto:
http://www.rsnapshot.org/howto/1.2/rsnapshot-HOWTO.en.html
Kind regards
Murray Crane
On 29 August 2013 10:00, Matthew Moore <matt@???> wrote:
> On 29/08/13 09:46, Murray Crane wrote:
> > Just "testing the waters" at this juncture, making sure that our plan
> > isn't going to make Andy angry or anything like that.
> >
> > I have two VPS's with bitfolk; my personal one and one that I am
> > donating to the virtual airline I am currently president of (on
> > separate servers). I'm thinking that for the purposes of backup of the
> > VA VPS, I can rsync the web folder over to a holding area on my
> > personal VPS on a daily basis, and do more traditional "everything"
> > backups (again, rsync) less frequently.
> >
> > Is this feasible/considered an "OK" thing to do (Andy)? Would I be
> > better off raising a support ticket to have the backups done by
> > Bitfolk (assumes you're not already, o'course)?
>
> Personally (I'm not Andy) I'd say that its your bandwidth, that you've
> paid for so you can do what you want with it.
>
> If you're looking at rsync for backups, have you considered using
> rsnapshot? It uses rsync 'under the hood' but simplifies the rest of
> the setup and saves a bit of space.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
>
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