Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups

2008-12-30 19:40:46
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups
From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Glen Davison" <glen.davison AT sirca.org DOT au>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:38:23 -0500
> A large, mostly static data set, and low bandwidth connection: this is
> rsync's specialty!  If you are not familiar with it, look here:
>
> http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
>
> I suggest you use rsync to sync your Windows client to a copy at your main
> site (costs you 20GB of disk space somewhere) then do your full Bacula
> backup from there.
>
> There will no doubt be some issues with timing/scheduling, and possibly
> permissions, to work out.  And restores will be two-stage.  But I think it
> would be worth it.
>

I do that for a remote backup of a few GB and it works great.

John

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