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What do you use to handling automated backup of multiple servers?

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  • seanhoseanho Member
    edited August 2017

    @sibaper said:

    @sidewinder said:
    Really surprised no one mentioned https://syncthing.net

    what happen if someone delete files from 'master' or you want to restore let say data from 3 month ago?

    Last time I use synthing it doesn't support file history or incremental backup

    This. Syncthing is awesome, but sync and backup are two different use-cases. It's why rsync is not a backup system on its own, and why rsnapshot, attic, borg, etc came about.

    @SplitIce, I use ansible too, to deploy the backup software, but what do you use to do the actual backups? Did you write your own rsync scripts?

  • SplitIceSplitIce Member, Host Rep

    Data is trasnferred using sshfs (some of our backups are over 100GB in size and we don't have the temporary space for doing it all locally, and we need to be able to do incremental backups).

    For mysql we do innobackupex
    For filesystem we use rsync to a sshfs directory

  • If you have a service so bad you need backups, why even bother backing up then?

  • @cheapwebdev

    I guess we know why youre cheap now.

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  • @sibaper said:

    @sidewinder said:
    Really surprised no one mentioned https://syncthing.net

    I use it for 1 VPS, you could use it for as many as you want. I set it up to back up 1 VPS to home Windows PC but have run it previously with 1 VPS to 1 backup VPS.

    what happen if someone delete files from 'master' or you want to restore let say data from 3 month ago?

    Last time I use synthing it doesn't support file history or incremental backup

    https://docs.syncthing.net/users/versioning.html

    Never tried it, but I'd probably bet it works as advertised.

    So deleted files are recoverable. The name synching is a title misleading when it can do versioning and recovering deleted files.

  • sidewinder said: Never tried it, but I'd probably bet it works as advertised.

    Yes, it works as advertised but only for latest version since that script copy every folder to trashcan folder. If your folder had 10 GB your trashcan had 10 GB too which is not limited storage friendly.

    So it's not fully capable to do backup jobs (backup, deduplication, versioning, etc)

  • @cheapwebdev said:
    If you have a service so bad you need backups, why even bother backing up then?

    >

    That is...........hilarious

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