Off site automated backups

[keith smith]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Off site automated backups
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at 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 at 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 at 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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Keith Smith


      
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