Back In Time

FR: Backup FROM and ftp or SSH connected server

Bug #504480 reported by Oceanwatcher
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Back In Time
Confirmed
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Bug Description

It would be really useful to be able to backup FROM a server (webserver) down to my local desktop PC.

Doing an incremental backup over ftp or SSH would be the perfect solution for a lot of webdesigners. We need a reliable backup where we can go back in time in case of a break-in on the server, a harddisk crash, a bug in the system that cause failures etc.

It is not enough to do a simple sync that would overrwrite the local copy. This would be disaster if the original got corrupted as you would end up with a corrupted backup.

Also, it is important that it is possible to only backup the changed files as a full backup would use too much time and too much bandwith.

Just wish it would also be able to do the same with the MySQL database :-) But I guess that is a totally different talk...

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Dan (danleweb) wrote :

You can use sshfs/curlftpfs to mount your server and then use BIT to backup mounted point.

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Oceanwatcher (oceanwatcher) wrote :

Yes... If it is supported at the remote end.

So I have to do this for all my 23 domains...

Would it not be easier to build this into the software so the software opens a session to the remote server, do the job and shut it down?

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Dan (danleweb) wrote :

You can user user.callback to mount/unmount your server. This is for backup process.
But for the GUI you have to do it manually, at least for the moment.

Changed in backintime:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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Eric JACQUOT (ejacquot) wrote :

Hi all,

I think using sshfs to Back-In-Time is a bad and wrong idea :

First, there are some systems doesn't support FUSE ans SSHFS.
Second, Backintime seems to be an embedded rsync frontend. What about rsync over ssh ?

No time to paste any diff and don't use the trunk branch, but it will be usefull to do. So tell me your minds ;)

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ML (0cs935kb517wwmwa7m9428daadkye-m9u2-wz6bkyhu4uqpfausw0ege9b0y33eg) wrote :

I hope this function will came next time...

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