[NTLUG:Discuss] Dirvish -vs- Duplicity

[Dave Augustus]

I use something *kind of* like this for my remote server.

Here is the setup:

my backup server is at my home running Bacula.
nightly, I run an rsync of my remote web server to get the files to my
Bacula server. I then use Bacula's settings to determine which files are
backed up and how often. And yes, Bacula supports encryption.

Thanks,
Dave Augustus


On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 14:17 -0600, Richard wrote:

> NTLUG had a presentation on the 'dirvish.org' project a while back.  I 
> have enjoyed using dirvish to do backups but have always been at odds 
> with the approach that the backup server must always pull a backup from 
> the client.
> 
> So now I have an issue where I don't want to setup a dirvish server and 
> have to maintain it. I just want to rent some storage space.    I want 
> to push a backup from a client to an offsite server.  Furthermore I want 
> the offsite backup to be encrypted.
> 
> Through a company that has disk space for rent, I learned of a project 
> called 'duplicity'.  It appears that duplicity is a python wrapper 
> around rsync ( and the librsync libraries) that is used to determine 
> which files to backup into a destination that turns out to be an 
> encrypted tar-formatted volume.
> 
> I'm still reading up on this, but I thought I'd share this solution and 
> ask some questions to which I'm still looking for the answer.
> 
> Have any of ya'll used this?
> 
> Does duplicity manage deleting files out of  the destination's existing 
> tar file backups as the files disappear from the source path?
> 
> Can duplicity handle multiple backup backup sets of the same data 
> (version'ing ??)  similar to dirvish backup images?
> 

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