I have implemented a daily backup from my oneandone dedicated server to my home desktop pc. I used rsync over ssh using the notes I wrote myself which work with ubuntu as well as windows. It is only backing up the websites, I'm not backing up the configuration yet, I could add a backup of /etc only that has to run as root.The PC is set up to turn itself on everyday via the BIOS, it will run the backup, do any other daily stuff I can think of, then switch itself off.
At the server end, just before the backup schedule, the mysql databases for the websites are all dumped. The sql for this site is now 9M although a lot of that appears to be server logs.
Once the backup has reached the desktop pc I'd like to create some form of historical backup and I am deciding whether to create incremental differences or chuck everything into subversion. I am leaning towards the latter.
One option for the servers daily activities could be to download podcasts and dump them onto my phone...
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