On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:09:32AM -0400, Marc Hughes wrote:
I have a dedicated web server that I need to backup (entirely). Unfortunately there's not enough room for me to make a tar archive on the machine, and there's no tape drive either in the machine or at that facility that we can efficiently use. We get charged for bandwidth usage, so I would like to compress the backup before it comes over the wire.
Also, this is a one time deal, so I can't go spending massive amounts of cash on some commercial backup software.
I can think of a few different options. The easiest would probably be to do something like rsync or tar via SSH. You can compress either at the application or tunnel level. I have a set of DMZ linux boxes which I backup twice a week (nothing really changes on them). I do this via rsync through SSH, and I let SSH do the compression (level 9 for best space, although it's slower). It works really nicely. If you're interested, I can send you the script off-list. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "For a while, all that stood between America and annihilation was a man with a drinking problem." - Some program on the Learning Channel