A client had a catastrophic fileserver failure resulting in the loss of a significant amount of important data. As a result, I was called in to setup an automated offsite backup. Due to many factors, I decided to implement a DroboFS instead of a hosted cloud or regular *nix fileserver.
Using the Drobo, there were a couple of gotchas. It doesn’t have sshd enabled, no bash shell, no rsync (or rsnapshot which would make this easier) and more.
I will describe how I setup an automated, passwordless, incremental differential, hard-linked backup using rsync across ssh.
