Re: openwall backup techniques

On 06-Jul-2013 15:23:27 +0400, [email protected] wrote:

 > as there's no rsync in Openwall,

ftp://gremlin.people.openwall.com/pub/linux/Owl/SRPMS/rsync-3.0.9-g1.src.rpm
(this file has a timestamp of 2012-05-28)

 > and it is a bit hard to run rdiff-backup which is in Python
 > (and Python is not included into the distro),

I hope we'll avoid it ALAP...

 > the only incremental backup method left is with GNU tar.
 > May be someone could make the
 > http://openwall.info/wiki/internal/gnu-tar-incremental-backups
 > wiki page a bit more verbose? As of now, it only describes the
 > process on the 'ideology' level, so it is necessary to google
 > up a lot of actual information to implement the same thing.
 > What I'd be glad to see there are samples of actual tar commands,
 > the authorized_keys file samples (with all these restriction
 > directives), may be even crontab entries, and the involved scripts,
 > if any.

I'd insist on using rsync (and even adding it to the mainstream Owl
distribution): unless being run as a daemon for the rsync:// protocol,
it is generally as safe as underlying ssh.


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