Off site automated backups

[Bryan O'Neal]

Use RSnapshot.

It is funny you are going down each of my presentations (ASULUG, PLUG,
ABLEConf) for the last year in reverse order. If only you had one about
VPN's in there is would have hit all four! :)

Makes me think I really should put that stuff on my blog at some point ;)

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:51 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at 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 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<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 at 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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>>
>>
>> --
>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
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