[Astlinux-devel] Tarsnap Backups

[Michael K. <mic...@ip...>]

Hi Devs

I have decided that I will be changing my current backup strategy to Tarsnap for the following reasons:

  1.  I need to back up sensitive files securely
  2.  I need to be performing daily backups as I suspect a few of my customers will be doing their own basic administration soon
  3.  And it looks awesome from my preliminary tests

My current backup strategy is as follows:

  1.  Find all changed files with rsync by comparing files in /mnt/kd and /mnt/kd/.ref and using an excluded directory/file list.
  2.  Use tar to back up all the resulting files on the Astlinux server
  3.  Move the backup file to the management server via SCP

So I assume that I can just replace 2) with tarsnap instead of tar and not do 3) but the problem is that I cant do this natively using the tarsnap-backup script.
Will I need to modify/recreate it or is there another way?

PS the doco mentions that I can edit /etc/tarsnap.conf. Does that mean that /mnt/kd/tarsnap.conf will take precedence or do I need to edit this file?

Thanks

Regards
Michael Knill