Setting up an rsync server: advice needed
by hazel from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6HBCP)
This is a project that I think would be worthwhile but I can't yet see a way into it. The rsync man page groans under the weight of options, most of which I do not understand and suspect that I do not need. So some general guidance would be helpful.
Here's the situation: I have two computers that I call bigboy and littleboy. Bigboy is my beloved working computer, an old fashioned desktop machine with 4 cores, 4 GB of ram and a new SSD which I recently installed with the help of this community (thanks, guys!). It runs Slackware and LFS, and and I recently added AntiX-23. I need AntiX because a friend of mine runs it and she's not computer-savvy, so I need to have a testbed for updates and stuff.
Littleboy is a small and creaky laptop that runs AntiX-21 only. I can't upgrade it to AntiX-23 because of the screwed-up Via Chrome graphics. The openchrome driver isn't supported any more; there was supposed to be a community fork but it fizzled out. And the machine is low-spec and slow. I only bought it because I felt I ought to learn how to use one, and using it gives me no pleasure.
But I don't like waste either. So as I have no other use for it (and it is too low-spec to give away), I am thinking of using it as a backup store. The idea is to use rsync to push files from bigboy to littleboy on a daily basis. I gather from my reading that the first run will take a long time because it will be effectively a complete backup but that daily differential updates will be fast. I think I have enough space on the littleboy drive for slackware+AntiX-23+data (+ ESP perhaps). I think LFS only needs to be backed up during the actual build.
Any general advice or guidance would be welcome.
Here's the situation: I have two computers that I call bigboy and littleboy. Bigboy is my beloved working computer, an old fashioned desktop machine with 4 cores, 4 GB of ram and a new SSD which I recently installed with the help of this community (thanks, guys!). It runs Slackware and LFS, and and I recently added AntiX-23. I need AntiX because a friend of mine runs it and she's not computer-savvy, so I need to have a testbed for updates and stuff.
Littleboy is a small and creaky laptop that runs AntiX-21 only. I can't upgrade it to AntiX-23 because of the screwed-up Via Chrome graphics. The openchrome driver isn't supported any more; there was supposed to be a community fork but it fizzled out. And the machine is low-spec and slow. I only bought it because I felt I ought to learn how to use one, and using it gives me no pleasure.
But I don't like waste either. So as I have no other use for it (and it is too low-spec to give away), I am thinking of using it as a backup store. The idea is to use rsync to push files from bigboy to littleboy on a daily basis. I gather from my reading that the first run will take a long time because it will be effectively a complete backup but that daily differential updates will be fast. I think I have enough space on the littleboy drive for slackware+AntiX-23+data (+ ESP perhaps). I think LFS only needs to be backed up during the actual build.
Any general advice or guidance would be welcome.