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.
Sent from my iPad On 2012-03-10, at 9:00 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Send rdiff-backup-users mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of rdiff-backup-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. how to push rdiff-backup (Willem Buitendyk) > 2. Re: how to push rdiff-backup (Nicolas Jungers) > 3. Re: how to push rdiff-backup (Jernej Simon?i?) > 4. Re: how to push rdiff-backup (Dominic Raferd) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 19:07:32 -0800 > From: Willem Buitendyk <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] how to push rdiff-backup > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > 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/ [email protected]::/home/fielddata/data/ > > This won't work as it complains about incorrect switches. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > > Willem > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/attachments/20120309/949196a6/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:00:29 +0100 > From: Nicolas Jungers <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] how to push rdiff-backup > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > 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/ [email protected]::/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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] >> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users >> Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:06:24 +0100 > From: Jernej Simon?i? <[email protected]> > To: "Willem Buitendyk on [rdiff-backup-users]" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] how to push rdiff-backup > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1250 > > 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/ >> [email protected]::/home/fielddata/data/ > >> This won't work as it complains about incorrect switches. > > Try putting a = between --remote-schema and 'ssh. > > -- > < Jernej Simon?i? ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ > > > The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut. > -- Mason's First Law of Synergism > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:08:30 +0000 > From: Dominic Raferd <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] how to push rdiff-backup > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/attachments/20120310/cd46d127/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > > > End of rdiff-backup-users Digest, Vol 112, Issue 2 > ************************************************** _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
