Backups - part 2

Posted By Paul Cooper |  last update 30-Aug 2011

So ive been having a fiddle around with my *FREE* livedrive  unlimited backup , courtesy of SCATA.

its not  problem-free.

I cant get rsync to work with the curlftpsfs mounted drive . I think thats a funciton of  ftp. in my current rsnapshot arrangment,  if a file hasn't changed, the program just creates a shortcut from the new file location  in the backup set to the old file, so it saves disk space and the amount of stuff that has to be transferred. The ftp  protocol also doesnt support symlinks .

But i came across a program  lftp, that was  described as  poor mans' rsync.  its a  scriptable ftp client that will automatically make a connectioni and then transfer files across, and there is  a mirror option in the variables you can set.

heres the problem though.

 at 20K/s its taking ages to transfer stuff. And i think the way it deals with symlinked files is to transfer across 2 copies. So when i make another local backup set adn the program rotates  the old ones ( hourly.2 becomes hourly.3 and hourly.1 becomse hourly.2 etc etc )  its tranferring the whole lot across , and taking more than 24 hours to do so .

At leat ive now got a remote copy of everything as of 3 days ago.

So i'll have to have  another look at rsync and perhaps the  transfer newer files option. i won't have a series of backups, but I should have everything there if i dont tell it to delete anything.