Looking for a specific backup tool

[Rashkae]

OliWare (Gmail) wrote:

> 
> Is this possible ? Rsync or something ?
> 

Yes indeed, Rsync or rsnapshot, (which uses rsync and some scripts to 
make multiple versions.)

Since you can't connect to the source directly, here is how I would do 
it..  There are other approaches, (remote port forward over ssh and 
remote script execution, for example)

Rsync from the source server to the backup server.  If possible, you'll 
want to sneakernet the 4+GB the first time, then rsync can keep it up to 
date with any changes.

 From the backup server, use rsnapshot to keep a backup of of the backed 
up data.  this will probably mean duplicating the data, but rsnapshot 
will let you keep several days and months worth of changes, so you can 
revert or recover a deleted and unfortunately modified file.