rsync backups
Playing around this morning looking at various backup thngs which run off of the rsync method.
Spurred by a posting in sage-members, I was looking at
- rdiff-backup - a system that uses basic rsync like stuff with a python wrapper to do backups and incrementals to a remote location. Pretty nice.
- duplicity - built off of rdiff-backup, but uses tar to create the archives and includes optional compression (gzip) and encryption (GnuPG) to protect the archives. Claims to work with FTP, but I can’t seem to get it to. The primary transport method is scp, which insists on four authentications for the first backup (and possibly more afterwards). Some nice ideas, but not really usable.
Posted by Rowan Littell at November 18, 2003 01:20 PM