On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:01 PM, David Fix<davidf at mrxfx.com> wrote: > Simple... :) Just rsync to the external drive, then rsync from the drive > to your local server. :) > > -- > David Fix > Senior Systems Administrator > Mr. X Inc. > 35 McCaul Street, Ste. #100 > Toronto, ON M5T 1V7 > T: (416) 595-6222, x 241 > F: (416) 595-9122 > E: davidf at mrxfx.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeff Gregor" <cpbecket at berkshire.net> > To: centos at centos.org > Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:52:46 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [CentOS] Initial backup prior to daily rsync backups > > I have a few CentOS 5.3 servers out at remote sites that connect over a > satellite link (a painfully slow satellite link). There's a time period > in the wee hours of the morning when the satellite provider doesn't > stiff me for bandwidth, and when the link is generally idle, where I > want to use rsync to back up files to my local server. I've got rsync > working in in combination with cron and ssh, and that process works fine. > > The problem is getting the initial copy of the files over to the local > server so that rsync can just deal with files changed during the day > (there tend to not be too many changes -- mostly office-type documents, > few pictures, that sort of thing, so limited bandwidth is not a > problem). If I run rsync now, however, it is trying to copy over all the > files since none exist on the local servers, and by my calculations > copying that 160gb worth of data should be done some time in > mid-February, 2010. > > I can make the 4-hour round trip out to the remote site with a USB hard > drive and copy the files that way, but my concern is how to get the file > structure, timestamps, permissions, etc copied exactly from the remote > server > USB drive > local server so that rsync can run most efficiently > (and not have to do a compare on every single file the first time it runs.) > > So the question is, how do I copy the files from the remote server back > to my local server in a way that will allow rsync, once the copy is > complete, to start dealing just with the daily changes in the most > efficient way possible? > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > You might want to read http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/docs.html