On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 18:50, daid kahl <daid...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a simple idea, cron task starts rsnapshot configured however. When > this is done, backup is tarballed, and tarball is given as like, say, > 440 permissions, where users are in some useful 'backup' group, then > while tarball can be read to be passed across server, if tarball is > extracted, user has no more privs then they have on the system anyway > (I'm not saying chmod -R). Then local tarball can be removed or > whatever.
It's not a bad idea, but you need enough free space on the client to backup the entire system (which for me is not the case). Secondly, every backup you do is a full backup as rsnapshot needs to access a backup todo a incremental backup. You could mess around with something like sshfs but's it's not great either. A straight rsync between client and server could do it but it would suprise me if this doesn't already exist in some form. Regards, Ward
