remote backup options

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:24:03PM -0400, Darryl Moore wrote:
> Hey all, I'm investigating options for remote backups.
> 
> I have a couple of linux servers with a few G of data I'd like to
> backup. The networks are NFS rather than SMB so file permissions and
> ownership matter.
> 
> backblaze is cool and really cheap, but they only support windows and
> mac, and I have no idea about servers instead of desktops.
> 
> Ideally I'd like to use rsnapshop, which uses rsync and hard links to
> make incremental backups. Are there any backup service providers that
> support rsync/linux backups?

rsnapshot is really only efficient if you run it on a local disk.
It would be awful on a remote disk.

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