backup tools

herbert langhans w3 at langhans.com.pl
Sat Jun 23 09:01:12 UTC 2012


lftp does work incremental. Take a look at Chad's posting again and read 
what he needs. And of course, ftp via ssh is nothing new ...

Cheers
herb langhans


On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:22:04AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:49:39 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > Maybe take a look at lftp, at the mirror option. For basic demands its a
> > > compact solution.
> > 
> > try doing backup of things with 10000 dirs and million files and certainly 
> > you will understand you need rsync.
> 
> In addition to rsync, which is regarded the default tool for
> the described action, maybe cpdup is worth looking at. It also
> has the ability to maintain "incremental" backups (add changes).
> 
> 
> 
> > ftp protocol is plain bad for that.
> 
> And insecure unless tunneled through some encryption (which might
> be important when backups appear inside a network with non-trusted
> participants, or across the Internet).
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

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