Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Local network backup
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:28:42
Message-Id: 200709141417.34720.prh@gotadsl.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Local network backup by Peter Humphrey
1 On Friday 14 Sep 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2
3 > So far I haven't tried specifying a remote destination to rsnapshot, which
4 > seems to assume it will be running on the backup host. If that's feasible,
5 > of course I'd prefer to do so. I'll try it and see.
6
7 Nope. Only local paths can be specified as backup destinations
8 in /etc/rsnapshot.conf.
9
10 Now I'm reduced to contemplating the use of rsnapshot to maintain a local
11 backup of the system and using rsync to keep a copy of it on the server.
12 Bizarre.
13
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16 Peter.
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