Using Dreamhost personal backup from a Windows Computer

[dblume]

Dreamhost offers a personal backup service.  Here are some notes on what I did to get it working from my Microsoft Windows Vista system.

Install All Required Cygwin Modules
First, I installed any missing required modules for cygwin.  At first, I had trouble with ssh, because it complained it couldn't find cygssp-0.  Using cygcheck confirmed the

Comments

[sjonsvenson]

Maybe I should move one of my domains to dreamhost. ^_^

BTW what about the speed?

[dblume]

Dreamhost's servers are located in Los Angeles, CA, USA, so speed to my personal PC is pretty fast.

But speed for backup isn't that important, right? The first backup is huge and slow. And all the subsequent rsync backups only send the files that've changed, so that'll go much more quickly, and I've set those to run at a time when nobody will want to be on the computer.

[tpederson]

Looks like a nice setup but do the upload times kill you? I tried Mozy a while back and syncing was unworkable with my paltry upload speed.

[dblume]

The first upload of everything took a few hours. I've set the recurring sync to 2:00pm on certain weekdays. Those incremental syncs only take a few minutes. (Note that I also compress the data along the line, it's in the rsync flags.)