Any way of doing this? rsync locally then move remotely?

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Hi All

I have a dilema with backups and was wondering if any one has any good ideas please :D

Site 1:
- Ubuntu box with 100GB of data on it that will change
- Slow ADSL connection

Site 2:
- Windows server

I was thinking of installing rsync for Windows on the Windows server and then backing up the Linux box's changes nightly to that. No problem. Size of changes will be fine for upload over night. It's the initial back up that's the problem though. It would take waaaay to long to back up the first time over the connection especially as it couldn't run during the working day.

Is there some way I can take a copy of the data, quick hop it across town, put it on the windows box, and make it use that data as the '1st run' to base the differentials off?

Thanks
Shell
 
Yup rdiff-backup looks like the fella :)

So it would have no issue me just dumping some data (copied from linux to external hard drive, carried to the other site, copied to windows box) in a folder on the windows box and then going 'update that!' (basically configure it to that directory..). Sweet.

Cheers
Shell
 
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