remote backup options

[Darryl Moore]

I'm curious why you say that. rsnapshot is basically a bunch of scripts
that uses rsync and hard linking to to create incremental backups.

Please explain.

cheers,
darryl

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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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