I'm already rsyncing to a backup server. The short coming someone pointed out would be if a table was dropped by accident or by a successful hacker then the rsync would replicate the changes to the backup server, leaving me with a real problem. So what I want to do is dump the data, tar it and store it off site.
I can write a script to ftp the tarball, however I was wondering if there was a service that will just ftp in and copy what is there. That would be the simplest. Of course it would have to be SFTP.
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Keith Smith
--- On Thu, 5/20/10, Eric Cope <
eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Eric Cope <
eric.cope@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Off site automated backups
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <
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Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 4:37 PM
is FTP necessary or can you rsync them?
Eric
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Stephen <
cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
in many many ways really.
the simplest "dirt" thing that comes to mind is a cronjob/backup script useing tar with compression the files you want to save then and ftp command to push the newly created file.
I know there are tools that can automate this im sure.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:20 PM, keith smith <
klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:
Man I've got 3 threads going at once. Thanks for all your help.
I want to do some automated backups and I've got this picture in my head of a service that can be configured to upload files from a specified folder by configuring it to FTP into my server.
Is that possible?
Thanks in advance!
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