[Cialug] rsnapshot replication

[Josh More]

FYI, if you have a server that has very little change ... like Wordpress
sites that get new tiny PHP files when you update and slightly change the
database here and there, the combination of AutoMySQLBackup and TarSnap is
incredible.  I had a client toss $50 at me to start the TarSnap process and
once I set it up, I discovered that his backups are costing him slightly
less than quarter per month, so he paid for over sixteen years of backups
with that $50.

Just pointing out that targeted backups of known sensitive data can be
amazingly cheap.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:32 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Josh More wrote:
> >
> > > I had a similar failure years ago.  These days I use CrashPlan (not the
> > > same, I know) and TarSnap (also not the same).
> > >
> > I glanced at CrashPlan some time ago, .. but I would prefer to work with
> > base tools instead of dealing with commercial or quasi-commercial
> > products.
> >
>
> I've never come across a home-grown backup solution that didn't take up
> way, way too much of my time fiddling around with scripts (generally fixing
> things up when the underlying tools had an incompatible change or error
> conditions occurred that I hadn't thought of), and probably would fail
> anyway when the **** hit the fan, especially when it comes to making sure
> that the data that is off-site is kept reasonably up-to-date.
>
> Count me as another +1 for CrashPlan.Well worth the money.
>
> --
> Jeff Ollie
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