[NCLUG] In search of a new backup solution

[Chad Perrin]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:26:05AM -0700, Paul Hummer wrote:
> 
> On my old server and backup strategy, I was using rsync on cron. I like
> rsync, but running it on cron meant that if my system was suspended or
> not powered up for any reason, I didn't get backups. This usually
> occurred when I was traveling with my laptop, when I probably should
> have been the most careful of backing up.

I'm not entirely clear on what's going on here.  Are you saying that a
system might be down somehow, and you need to connect to it from your
laptop to get its rsync cron job running?  Are you saying you want to
back up your laptop while it's suspended (I really suspect that's not
what you mean)?

If you're having some kind of problem with making regular updates happen
because of where you're triggering the transfer, you could always just
swap systems -- push instead of pull, or vice versa -- and keep using the
same mechanism (the rsync copying algorithm).  Because I'm not entirely
clear on the problem you're having, I'm not entirely sure how to solve
it, though.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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