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| author | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2014-08-15 15:06:05 +0300 |
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| committer | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2014-08-15 15:06:05 +0300 |
| commit | 88aca2c8ee146044a88931873c677d69a7354f1e (patch) | |
| tree | 6ad985645e862886f88d1d34405bb51fb6e73505 /manual/en | |
| parent | 3502af2f6930fddfcd0f6d46884a257abec57bb1 (diff) | |
| download | obnam-88aca2c8ee146044a88931873c677d69a7354f1e.tar.gz | |
Add a section on pull backups
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diff --git a/manual/en/060-backing-up.mdwn b/manual/en/060-backing-up.mdwn index d223cdc9..311f1174 100644 --- a/manual/en/060-backing-up.mdwn +++ b/manual/en/060-backing-up.mdwn @@ -197,6 +197,22 @@ of of hardlinks is rather suboptimal. For live data access, you should not end the URL with /~/ and should append a dot at the end in this special case. +Pull backups +------------ + +Obnam can also access the live data over SFTP, instead of via the +local filesystem. This means you can run Obnam on, say, your desktop +machine to backup your server, or on your laptop to backup your phone +(assuming you can get an SSH server installed on your phone). +Sometimes it is not possible to install Obnam on the machine where the +live data resides, and then it is useful to do a **pull backup** +instead: you run Obnam on a different machine, and read the live data +over the SFTP protocol. + +To do this, you specify the live data location (the `root` setting, or +as a command line argument to `obnam backup`) using an SFTP URL. +That's all there is to it. + Configuration files: a quick intro ---------------------------------- |