[UFO Chicago] Comcast Cuts Off Bandwidth Hogs

[sten]

On 4/6/2007, "Neil R. Ormos" <ormos at ripco.com> wrote:

>Jordan Bettis wrote:
>> 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.
>This arrangement works fine if you
>want to keep a complete copy of the original tree
>online, but it is not conducive to saving
>incremental backups to offline media such as tape,
>DVD, CD-ROM.


what he said. plus, "tar cjf - --newer-mtime $YESTERDAY" is easy :D 

-sten