Archive for April, 2010

Remote backups with rsnapshot

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

I’ve previously used rdiff-backup to do remote backups of my Debian servers, but for whatever reason they tend to fail and I don’t learn about the problem soon enough and I needed a new solution. Enter: rsnapshot.
Install rsnapshot on both the remote machine and the backup server:
apt-get install rsnapshot

Save yourself a copy of the default [...]