Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup over ssh

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> michelts <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:01:51 -0200
> 
> I trying to do a ssh backup, it seems to be working correctly in the
> starting time but the backup is too big and I think the ssh session
> expires so I can't send all the data, the backup breaks on some
> point.
> 
> The first backup is the most problematically once I have to download
> all the source I backing up. The second and then is ok because there
> is lesser data to transfer. Is there a way to avoid this problem? 
> Can I make a backup on the server, compact and download it to the
> other pc, and then create a backup session in it?

Yes, rdiff-backup should take less time to finish if most of the data
is already there.  So if it fails the first time you can delete the
rdiff-backup-data directory and try it again, and it should run faster
the next time.

There must be some utility that uses ssh to maintain a more reliable
session but I've never had this problem and so have never looked for
something like this.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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