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You can easily use netcat to pipe tar over the network directly to zbackup. If you want encryption over the network it's even easier: tar -c stuff/ | ssh user@
by leni536 12y ago
You can easily use netcat to pipe tar over the network directly to zbackup. If you want encryption over the network it's even easier:
tar -c stuff/ | ssh user@example.com zbackup backup /my/backup/repo/backups/backup-`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`
- jewel 12y agoI should have been more clear. The problem is that zbackup won't work for large data sets. For example, I used to use rdiff-backup for a samba filesystem at work that had a few terabytes of files on it. The problem was that whenever someone would rename a directory all of the data in its subdirectories would have to be backed up again. Backup software that deduplicates solves this problem wonderfully, since it doesn't make a difference if the files have been moved or not. The problem with your approach is that I can't send several terabytes of data offsite every night. I could use the rsync trick I mentioned, but now I've got to store two copies of the data on the backup server.
- Am1GO 12y agoWrong. You could keep in sync only "index" and "backups" directories on your backup client with server, you don't have to keep "bundles" everywhere.