couldn't you dump to a date-in-the-name tarball then rsync it over?
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:51 PM, keith smith <
klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> ------------------------
> 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" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> 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<http://mc/compose?to=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<http://mc/compose?to=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!
>>>
>>> ------------------------
>>> Keith Smith
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>>
>> Stephen
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