On 07/01/06, Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
Take your first backup over the local lan, then move the disk/DVD/tape to the other machine and copy the data off (make sure you preserve all the file time attributes!) then you will only need to backup changes which if you aren't dealing with a *huge* dataset shouldn't be a problem.
Also like Wayne said, ditch using NFS over a tunnel and just use rsync over ssh with compression, that should make quite a big difference.
Yay! Success. The backup is already just incremented changes..I used to run it at work and have moved it offsite, but the 14 daily images are still there. So I've now swapped the server actually running the process to being the same one as the backup directory is on, and have begun the backup using rsync over ssh. It has completed its backup in about 2 hours, and I know there has been a lot of data chucked on my work server since the last backup. The attempt I made over the nfs/openvpn tunnel was nowhere near even after leaving it running overnight.
Many thanks for all the answers.
Jenny