[kwlug-disc] Transferring large backup files over the network

[David Critch]

Hey Paul,

I use borgbackup[0] to do incremental, site to site backups. I've found it
very easy to use and setup. I encrypt and compress with it, but that is
optional. Some googling[1] indicates that NTFS should work.

[0] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
[1] https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/2080

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 3:20 PM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> Say I have a big (multi-terabyte) collection of backup files (which
> tend to be large, in the tens of gigabytes) sitting on some server A.
>
> I have a LAN connection (maybe gigabit, maybe 100MBit) available and
> another server B in a different building. I want to regularly transfer
> the collection of files from server A to server B each evening.
>
> Maybe the filesystem on server A is NTFS, but this is a soft
> requirement that I would try to work around if I could.
>
> What FLOSS tools would be best for this use case and why?
> If you know of good solutions that would play with NTFS, that is a
> bonus. (rsync is not in that category, especially if Server A has to
> run Windows.) But even if we soften the NTFS requirement, I am not
> sure whether rsync is still the best solution here.
>
> - Paul
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