Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Safe to mirror backup dir with rsync?

[Gavin]

Hi Engel,

Yes rsync would work for this but if you are connecting to a server that
has or can have rdiff-backup on it you may as well run
rdiff-backup to that server and then again for the local copy. All from
the original files.

I rdiff-backup all my home and server boxes to a /backup partition on
one machine.
Then rsync /backup to an encrypted portable hard drive.
I also run with box A keeps box B's backups while box B keeps box A's
backups.

Naturally rsync must complete successfully for the mirror to be a mirror
but rsync can recover from interruptions.
This is why rsync is often used to start an rdiff-backup repository.
Check out backupninja for setting up such backup systems.

Cheers
Gavin

Engel Sanchez wrote:
> Hello. I tried searching for this in the mailing list, but could not find a 
> definitive answer to my question, so...  I am using rdiff-backup to backup to 
> a local directory.  I would like to have this backup mirrored to another 
> server (and potentially mirrored a third time to another server with a 
> portable hard drive attached). Is it safe (and recommended) to just use rsync 
> for the mirror of the backup directory? What if rsync fails to finish a 
> session? Will the mirror of the backup directory end up in a consistent state 
> such that I can restore from it if necessary?  If this is not feasible, then 
> I might try to simply run rdiff-backup from the remote server from the 
> original files and not the local backup. But I would prefer to mirror the 
> first backup if possible. Thanks in advance for any help/advice.
>
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