rsnapshot

[ddigioia]

Is it possible to get rsnapshot (perl wrapper for rsync) included in DSS?

We could then do versioned rotating backups using hard links with minimal storage costs. I would like the ability to do them to dynamic disks, which could then be off-sited.

Thanks,
David

[masim]

I dont think this will be possible with open-e becuase it requires SSH, and we do not have that in open-e (which make life easier )

Can you configure rsnapshot on other server and store the data over NFS?

I asked once about backula, and they said they are going to add backula clients support to give possibility to backup from host to thier servers.

Maybe this will be your plan B!!

[ddigioia]

I think it should work. The DSS rsync server is a standard rsync daemon, right?

From the rsnapshot man page at http://www.rsnapshot.org/rsnapshot.html

Local filesystem snapshots are handled with rsync(1). Secure remote connections are handled with rsync over ssh(1), while anonymous rsync connections simply use an rsync server. Both remote and local transfers depend on rsync.

I believe I will be able to use rsnapshot from an external Linux server using this info from another forum post:

rsync command used to synchronize from Open-E server to your operating
system (executed on your operating system) can look similar to this:

cd $DEST_DIR
export RSYNC_PASSWORD=${PASSWORD}
rsync -raRx --acls --xattrs --whole-file --delete --force
"$LOGIN@$RSYNC_DEST_IP::$SOURCE_SHARE" "./"

However, I would like to be able to use rsnapshot from DSS storage to DSS dynamic drive (USB or E-SATA) on the same DSS, without needing to purchase and maintain a separate backup server.

Regarding bacula, we switched from bacula to rsnapshot a long time ago, and we have not regretted it. For our usage, rsnapshot is easier to setup and maintain, more transparent, and cheaper in terms of disk space used for a given backup set.

rsnapshot backups can be easily browsed, as they are just standard files on a standard filesystem, and they can be restored by simply using rsync, scp, sftp, cp, etc.

Thanks,
David