[UFO Chicago] Comcast Cuts Off Bandwidth Hogs

[Jordan Bettis]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:23:27PM -0500, sten wrote:
> 
> This is interesting, and unfortunate if true, but I'm backing up my
> Linode to my home PC on Comcast every day. A full backup bzipped at the
> Linode is about 700MB currently, and I pull that down once a week. My
> daily diff backups are 40-80MB bzipped.

Interesting. I do a rsync once per night against a local copy of the file
tree on my linode and it's only a few megabytes a day, almost always in
spool and log files. I imagine it would be a lot bigger if I had large
database files though.

Why do you pull a full copy once a week? Rsync with the proper options
will keep two trees synched indefinitely.

If you're using backuppc or something so you can have a clicky
interface or backversions of files you could probably safely save a
lot of bandwith by rsyncing the tree onto your local system and then
running the backup program against that tree to generate backversions.

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