[nzlug] Backups for dummies

[Matthew Diesch]

Even with RSync you can struggle to get a sync done in reasonable time.
I set up a couple of offices using RSync overnight for backup and
found the backup taking days - a combination of someone dumping ~3gig
of new files onto the serverone afternoon and Telecom's pathetic DSL
upload bandwidth. 128K (supposedly) upload + 3Gigs of data to transfer
- just do the maths - it's not good news.

On 04/09/06, Daniel Lawson <daniel at meta.net.nz> wrote:
>
> >
> > Because the pipe to the central headoffice (where the backup server
> > would probably sit) is not fat enough to handle all uploads from all
> > branches.
>
> You could look into using rsync to transfer the backups to the
> headoffice, as this would massively decrease the daily volume of traffic
> as only the parts of the files that have changed will be transferred.
>
>
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