Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup to 3rd location.

[David Kempe]

Jason C. Leach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to servers, they one backs up to the other each night.  Some 
> times we get too much new data to backup over an ADSL line.  In this 
> case, I would like to have the backup go to a USB drive so I can take it 
> to the server and 'unload' it.

You could write a script that used the --compare feature of version 
0.13.4 can then compare the outputs to a predetermined threshold.

if it was too large, you could then rsync the backup to the usb disk 
repository (on linux i strongly recommend firewire over usb2), walk it 
over to the other server, then rdiff-backup /mnt/usb2 
/mnt/originalrepository.

if you didn't want to use this feature, you could do a similar thing 
with du or find. you could even get it to mail you so you knew it needed 
the extra bandwidth :)

dave