On 10/03/12 08:00, Nicolas Jungers wrote:
On
2012-03-10 04:07, Willem Buitendyk wrote:
I'm a little perplexed. My scenario is
that I have data loggers in the field, each with a 3g usb modem
on board. I want to have the data loggers rdiff back to my
server on amazon ec2 - or to push the backup. My data loggers
have dynamic ip addresses and the telco company keeps them
hidden. In other words I can't have my backup amazon ec2 server
poll my data logger. Again, the need to push the backup. I'm
not really finding any information on how to accomplish this.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
The way I do it is to establish an openVPN tunnel. Beware that
rdiff-backup is very sensitive to the link quality.
Agreed about the link quality, and so I would suggest that rather
than try to run rdiff-backup over a 3g connection, you run rsync,
which is much better at recovering from broken connections,
especially with the --partial and --link-dest switches (and,
occasionally, --checksum). Each machine in the field could rsync
back to their dedicated folder on the backup machine and then the
backup machine can run rdiff-backup locally. By combining the 2
programs in this way you can still get the benefit of rdiff-backup's
versioning '4D' backup.
I also recommend creating a snapshot on the source machine and
backing up from this rather than from the original data (which might
change while the backup is in progress). For this you want LVM (for
Linux) or VSS (for Windows) - I don't know what the equivalent is
for Apples.
Dominic
TimeDicer - Windows Backup
and File Recovery from Whenever
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