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@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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