Backup Central

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 13:51:56 +0200
Jens Benecke <jens < at > spamfreemail.de> wrote:

btw: I just found out about SHFS. (http://shfs.sf.net) It lets you mount
directories via SSH. It performs quite well (~1-2MB/s) so it might be
suitable for remote rdiff-backup where only SSH access is possible.

Er, that's what rdiff-backup does anyway (backups requiring only ssh
access). Oh, and shfs is fine for LAN, interactive use, but I wouldn't use
it over unattended WAN links (too unreliable).

Keith Edmunds wrote:

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 13:51:56 +0200
Jens Benecke <jens < at > spamfreemail.de> wrote:

btw: I just found out about SHFS. (http://shfs.sf.net) It lets you mount
directories via SSH. It performs quite well (~1-2MB/s) so it might be
suitable for remote rdiff-backup where only SSH access is possible.

Er, that's what rdiff-backup does anyway (backups requiring only ssh
access).

Really? It doesn't require Python and rdiff-backup on the target side?
Because that's what is NOT installed on our backup server (on which I don't
have root).

I could theoretically install a statically compiled python2.2 binary and
rdiff-backup on the backup server but I think that's too much of a hassle
and would only provoke more problems.

Oh, and shfs is fine for LAN, interactive use, but I wouldn't use
it over unattended WAN links (too unreliable).

Yup, the backup server is on the same LAN as the backup client is. That is
not a problem. But shfs is buggy anyway, it seems (see other post).


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