Re: [bu-users] Another use for BU

[Tony W. <to...@po...>]

Vincent Stemen wrote:
> 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

I'm using rbu.  Are you sure it doesn't support filtering?

I've seen a couple of cases where something is backed up when it 
shouldn't, but overall filtering seems to work.

I'll try bu for laughs.



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