An easier way of doing a site backup? (5)

1 Name: Squeeks!!XjdwLWBy 04/12/24(Fri)17:11 ID:Heaven [Del]

To try and make some more redundancy on this site to cover against future occourances, Im looking at better ways of backing the site up.

Options Im thinking about:

  • Using space elsewhere and FTPing a tarball over
  • rsync, or similar
  • Tarball and letting you lot get the data.

Considering Im not the smartest at this, I figured asking you.

Any better ideas? I'll be looking to backup the site either every 24 or 48 hours, which doesnt bother me since my DSL connection doesnt have a download limit.

2 Name: Albright!LC/IWhc3yc 04/12/24(Fri)18:43 ID:ldDh5j8I [Del]

Perhaps the easiest way of doing this would be to set up a cron job on the remote server that tarballs the entire web directory, then set up a cron job on your local machine (or wherever you will store the backup) to download, then delete the tarball five minutes later. Downside is that, for the four and a half minutes or so that tarball is on your server, it'll be taking up a good chunk of space, so if you're low on disk space this isn't a good solution...

rsync would be smarter and less "brute-force," but I've never used it.

3 Name: h-cube!h3/bEAAN16 04/12/24(Fri)21:27 ID:ZkChRbwx [Del]

rsync snapshots.

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

4 Name: CYB3R H4XX0R G33K 04/12/25(Sat)01:50 ID:Heaven [Del]

Anyone got an rysnc client working under windows? There is little help around on the net that I can find :(

5 Name: CYB3R H4XX0R G33K 04/12/25(Sat)04:30 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>4
rsync on cygwin works fine for me...

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