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Rajat
Asked: 2009-10-27 07:32:08 +0800 CST

using rsync incremental 25gb

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I need same help on taking backup my production server to staging server using rsync and i have around 25gb of data which my production which get added 200mb every day.

1 it has to incremental 2 we are using centos 4.X 3 with 8gb ram 2tg hdd

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  2. Best Answer

    For backups, I recommend rdiff-backup. It's fairly comprehensive, fast, and does incremental backups very easily.

    It's freely available, but I don't know if there are any premade CentOS packages for it.

    rsync can also be used, (rdiff-backup already uses librsync) but rsync doesen't store the increments it transfers. With rsync you can easily keep a copy of your data, but you can't easily keep the change history of your data.

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  3. The rsync docs have an example that might do what you want: http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html

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  4. Also, if some is compressed files that change a little (but keep the same names), gzip --rsyncable will keep changes minimized to make rsync need to copy less.

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