29 Aug
2013
29 Aug
'13
9:18 a.m.
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…
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(a)smtl.co.uk> 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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