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Toscano2 |
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[rdiff-backup-users] Backup and synchronization issues |
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Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:15:01 -0400 |
Hello everyone,
I am reading for some time now about backup solutions, especially the
'rdiff-backup' (=> 'RDB') approach looks great.
The RDB Windows-port is working fine for local backup of my Windows-data. Now
I'd like to extend this further.
Since backup+restore is such a common task, I'd like to know if others
have already designed a solution or have some hints for me for the following
scenarios:
- with backup I mean data-only, not the operating system itself (I have images
for that task)
- final backup storage destination is local PC (Win XP SP3, reasonably large
NTFS partition)
AIMS:
1. I need to backup my 3 Windows systems (Win XP, all with NTFS)
2. backup of Linux-servers (currently 3)
3. backup of content inside VMWare-images, also VMWare-images itself
- I need daily backups of servers, and in case my final backup-destination PC
is not powered-on,
I cannot use Windows-RDB on my local side and RDB on the server-side.
=> So I must backup each server via RDB (or one of the wrappers below) locally
first.
- When the final backup-destination Windows-PC is running, I'd like to
synchonize/copy
the linux-server's backups made locally via RDB to the NTFS-partition.
AIM 3 would be accomplished for the VMWare-images-part with AIM 1, for the
Linux-content _inside_ the VMWare-image,
this resolves to my AIM 2, for which I do not have a solution yet.
Now my questions are:
This is the point where I am stuck now. AFAICT it's not possible to use
(cw-)rsync to an NTFS partition, is that right?
How did others solve that problem? (Backup to Windows via RDB the already
locally backupped RDB-archive?)
Those solutions I am considering for Linux/Local-to-Linux backups:
http://code.autistici.org/trac/backupninja
second option: http://safekeep.sourceforge.net/index.shtml
simpler approach: http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/BackupServer
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