Thanks for the ideas. I think after doing some more reading that
using Rsync is a more reliable call. I will break up my files into
smaller manageable pieces for Rsync handle.
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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 19:07:32 -0800
From: Willem Buitendyk <willem < at > pcfish.ca>
To: rdiff-backup-users < at > nongnu.org
Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] how to push rdiff-backup
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I'm a little perplexed. My scenario is that I have data loggers in the field, each with a 3g usb modem on board. I want to have the data loggers rdiff back to my server on amazon ec2 - or to push the backup. My data loggers have dynamic ip addresses and the telco company keeps them hidden. In other words I can't have my backup amazon ec2 server poll my data logger. Again, the need to push the backup. I'm not really finding any information on how to accomplish this.
I tried something like:
rdiff-backup --remote-schema 'ssh -i /home/ubuntu/id_rsa.pem %s rdiff-backup ?-server? /home/ubuntu/data/ fielddata < at > 22.22.222.222::/home/fielddata/data/
This won't work as it complains about incorrect switches.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Willem
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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:00:29 +0100
From: Nicolas Jungers <nicolas < at > jungers.net>
To: rdiff-backup-users < at > nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] how to push rdiff-backup
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On 2012-03-10 04:07, Willem Buitendyk wrote:
I'm a little perplexed. My scenario is that I have data loggers in the field, each with a 3g usb modem on board. I want to have the data loggers rdiff back to my server on amazon ec2 - or to push the backup. My data loggers have dynamic ip addresses and the telco company keeps them hidden. In other words I can't have my backup amazon ec2 server poll my data logger. Again, the need to push the backup. I'm not really finding any information on how to accomplish this.
I tried something like:
rdiff-backup --remote-schema 'ssh -i /home/ubuntu/id_rsa.pem %s rdiff-backup ?-server? /home/ubuntu/data/ fielddata < at > 22.22.222.222::/home/fielddata/data/
This won't work as it complains about incorrect switches.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
The way I do it is to establish an openVPN tunnel. Beware that
rdiff-backup is very sensitive to the link quality.
Regards,
Nicolas
Thanks
Willem
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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:06:24 +0100
From: Jernej Simon?i? <jernej+s-nongnu < at > eternallybored.org>
To: "Willem Buitendyk on [rdiff-backup-users]"
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On Saturday, March 10, 2012, 4:07:32, Willem Buitendyk wrote:
rdiff-backup --remote-schema 'ssh -i /home/ubuntu/id_rsa.pem %s
rdiff-backup ?-server? /home/ubuntu/data/
fielddata < at > 22.22.222.222::/home/fielddata/data/
This won't work as it complains about incorrect switches.
Try putting a = between --remote-schema and 'ssh.
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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:08:30 +0000
From: Dominic Raferd <dominic < at > timedicer.co.uk>
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Cc: willem < at > pcfish.ca
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] how to push rdiff-backup
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On 10/03/12 08:00, Nicolas Jungers wrote:
On 2012-03-10 04:07, Willem Buitendyk wrote:
I'm a little perplexed. My scenario is that I have data loggers in
the field, each with a 3g usb modem on board. I want to have the
data loggers rdiff back to my server on amazon ec2 - or to push the
backup. My data loggers have dynamic ip addresses and the telco
company keeps them hidden. In other words I can't have my backup
amazon ec2 server poll my data logger. Again, the need to push the
backup. I'm not really finding any information on how to accomplish
this.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
The way I do it is to establish an openVPN tunnel. Beware that
rdiff-backup is very sensitive to the link quality.
Agreed about the link quality, and so I would suggest that rather than
try to run rdiff-backup over a 3g connection, you run rsync, which is
much better at recovering from broken connections, especially with the
--partial and --link-dest switches (and, occasionally, --checksum). Each
machine in the field could rsync back to their dedicated folder on the
backup machine and then the backup machine can run rdiff-backup locally.
By combining the 2 programs in this way you can still get the benefit of
rdiff-backup's versioning '4D' backup.
I also recommend creating a snapshot on the source machine and backing
up from this rather than from the original data (which might change
while the backup is in progress). For this you want LVM (for Linux) or
VSS (for Windows) - I don't know what the equivalent is for Apples.
Dominic
TimeDicer <http://www.timedicer.co.uk> - Windows Backup and File
Recovery from Whenever
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