[Eug-lug] rsync problems

[Rob Hudson]

Hi LUG,

I'm helping a friend set up a sort of backup solution.  He's got a
co-located Linux web server, and a Linux file server in his office
behind a firewall.  I set up an rsync script to synchronize (pull) all
the web files down at night.  The problem is that it's dying about 25%
of the way through.  From the log error output it appears that since
rsync can sometimes take a bit of time, something happens to the
network connection during the sync and drops the connection.  This is
the closest explanation I could find:
http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg14422.html

So, what's a good alternate backup strategy?

Goals are:
* Mirror the directories on remote server periodically.
* Would be nice to only pull down differences to save bandwidth but at
this point it's not a priority.

Thanks,
Rob