Tag Archives: rsync

Backup, backup, then backup some more

By Callum | Published: Wednesday 20 Aug 2008 16:25

I’ve had a couple of backup reminders recently. John suffered a hard drive failure. Then his backup failed. It reminded me that I need to sort out a backup for my server. This server! Then I accidentally deleted my whole address book. Thankfully I was able to restore from backup quite painlessly. Thank you dear, [...]

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Staying with rsync.net

By Callum | Published: Tuesday 27 Nov 2007 18:18

Have said I was going to ditch rsync.net as my backup provider, I’ve decided to change my mind. The eventually got back to me today having finally fixed my problem a whole month after I reported it, and a full 14 days after they last were in touch.
However, my problem was very specific, very random, [...]

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Incremental Backup on Amazon EC2 / S3

By Callum | Published: Saturday 27 Oct 2007 21:48

Somebody suggested using Amazon EC2 to provide an incremental backup interface to S3. For the likes of rsync to be truly effective, you need to have an rsync program running near the data store. It struck me, you could use an EC2 instance with free, high-speed bandwidth to S3 to do exactly that.
Using S3fuse (currently [...]

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