Dan, with your strategy each external drive will contain 6 sets of daily
incremental changes and then 1 set of changes which covers 8 days
(repeated every fortnight) - and they will be different from one
another. It's workable but not ideal. John's strategy is more logical.
Do you have the possibility of running rsync from the server direct to
an offsite location? That way you could keep your rdiff-backup
repository on your server and regularly sync it to the offsite location,
so no one has to run around with disk drives.
On 03/09/2013 14:56, John Wesorick wrote:
There is no way for rdiff-backup to know what changed if you swap the
drives, so it would be missing out on a week of changes. A cheap way
around this (and what I do) is I have rdiff-backup backup to an
external drive, and then I clone that external drive to another one
using rsync, and the second external drive becomes the off-site backup.
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On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Dan Joyce <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Looking at rdiff-backup as an Ubuntu Server solution. It looks
great, but I can't find any documentation on using multiple
external hard drives and how it will handle them being rotated
off-site. I'd like to have at least two externals that will rotate
weekly. Does rdiff work with this setup? If so, can I keep the
two drives in sync? In other words, if Drive1 is attached this
week and backs up incrementally daily then Friday I rotate in
Drive2 through next Friday, will Drive2 somehow include all the
incremental changes--and therefore deleted/changed files--that
happened in the week it was off-site? Or, will I only have
every-other week's changes on one drive?
Thanks,
Dan J.
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