Seed a network backup

[levi730]

hello! Thanks for a great backup tool!

I'm wondering if there's a way to seed a network backup with snebu?

I'm guessing that if so, it would be a process like:

1. Backup to local drive (usb, sata, etc) for speed in creating the initial backup
2. Move that drive into a server
3. Reconfigure things so the future (differential) backups will go over the network,

Is this possible somehow?

[derekp7]

Thanks for your comment, sorry I didn't respond earlier but apparently my email notification on Github got messed up.
You can technically back up to a local usb drive, put both the data catalog (the sqlite3 db file) and the vault directory on that drive, and then when that drive is hooked up to a remote server you can use normal file copying utilities to sync it over to the other server's storage.

Note, that if you have a low-powered 2.5 inch usb hard drive, I've found that the sqlite operations can be somewhat slow -- in those cases, I keep the backup catalog (the "meta" directory variable in the /etc/snebu.conf file) on local storage, then copy it to the usb drive when the backup operations are finished.

Oh, and FYI, there is a new version I'm working (commits at the top of the git repository are working, but I need to write some more unit tests for them), which support public key data encryption (see the "tarcrypt.txt" file to see how it works underneath). Also working on creating a front-end in the main client script where you can back up to a local repository, and sync to the remote one transferring only the delta data. Working through how the UI will look, as it can be confusing (too many parameters) the way I currently have it set up.