Re: [bu-users] Another use for BU

[Vincent S. <bu...@hi...>]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 08:29:10AM -0500, Tony Willoughby wrote:
> 
> Just thought I'd explain a new use for BU that I've found.
> 
> I use it with my dropbox.com account.  Dropbox will backup all of 
> ~/Dropbox to the cloud.  I populate ~/Dropbox with a cron job running 
> rbu.  It's nice because rbu allows me to easily filter out stuff that I 
> don't want uploaded.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tony Willoughby to...@po...

Hi Tony.  I assume you mean a cron job running *bu*, since rbu does not
have filtering yet.

I do something similar to keep our web hosting VPS server backed up.
I use bu, for the filtering, to backup to a local directory on the
server, then use rsync to pull the changes to a backup dir on my local
machine. 

You can also use rbu directly with services similar to dropbox if they
support rsync, such as rsync.net.  Unfortunately, it is going to be
a while longer before I can allocate time to get back on rbu to add bu's
include/exclude lists.  So, to have filtering for now, we are stuck with
using bu to a local (or NFS) directory as you are doing, and then
rbu'ing to the off site backup server.

- Vince