Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of faq/backup-setup

Timestamp:

Aug 22, 2007, 5:37:55 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

Jamie McClelland

Comment:

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faq/backup-setup

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 We recommend that you use backupninja and rdiff-backup. Below are instructions for how to get started with these two programs.
 
-NOTE: in it's current release backupninja has no easy way to limit bandwidth (bandwidth limiting will be available in future releases). That means that when you run the backup it will probably take over your Internet connection :(. That's not a problem if you schedule your backup for the middle of the night and it only runs for 15 minutes or so (only copying the files that have changed). However, it can be a problem during the initial upload. Please contact support so we can agree on the best method for the initial copy.
+NOTE: in it's current release backupninja has no internal way to limit bandwidth (bandwidth limiting will be available in future releases). Therefore you should run it through [http://www.monkey.org/~marius/trickle/ trickle]. dkg explains it with:
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+{{{
+Say you want to limit backupninja 50Kbps down and 70Kbps up. Instead of running
+
+backupninja -n
+
+you can run
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+trickle -d 50 -u 70 backupninja -n
+}}}
 
 If you are not running Debian, please check out the respective web sites for  backupninja and rdiff-backup to download the programs ([http://dev.riseup.net/backupninja/ http://dev.riseup.net/backupninja] and [http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup]).
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 (t is test, n is now, d is debug)
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+A few additional thoughts from abh:
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+If you're getting funky errors, definitely ask for help here, but try making sure you're backing up to the right directory. I wasn't!
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+And - hints for setting up a nullmailer to handle emailing: [http://mayfirst.org/node/372#comment-216 here].