Rsnapshot backup TO remote server

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I just bought 100GB of "Cloud"-Space at Strato's HiDrive for remote server backups.
They offer the following services: sftp,webdav,smb/cifs,rsync,scp

Now i want to do a remote backup to my Backup-Space using rsnapshot.
All the examples I found were only for backing up FROM remote servers to local machine, but not for backing up TO remote servers.

How can I do incremental backups using rsnapshot using one of the protocols above?

Best Answer

rsnapshot only saves to local file systems.

From the manpage for the parameter snapshot_root:

snapshot_root Local filesystem path to save all snapshots

It might be possible to mount your backup space locally (WebDAV, SMB, or sshfs via fuse), but I am not sure this would be of much use as I don't know if hardlinks like rsnapshot needs them work on any of these remote file systems. My guess is that it's not working and this is why it insists on local file systems in the first place.

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