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Accessing your backup space directly via rsync
Read the backup overview if you haven’t already.
rsync is a clever “network copy” program which
will try to only transmit the differences between a file or set of
files, so low-bandwidth connections can be used to do relatively large
and frequent backups.
This makes it the recommended method for your regular backup strategy, although an nfs mount is convenient for checking what you have on the remote space. Remember that files transfered by rsync will be found beneath the hidden .rsync_root directory on the backup space.
An example rsync command
Once you have a local directory tree of backups that you wish to sync to your remote space example.backup.bytemark.co.uk you may do so with the following command:
rsync --delete -qazr /var/backups example.backup.bytemark.co.uk::example/
Note the double colons ::!
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