Off-site Backup with Backupninja

Goal: Setup a remote machine that will be used for incremental backup of critical parts of the LURK servers.

Requirements

This document assumes you already have:

• A configure Linux/BSD machine to work as off-site backup
• A lurk user created on the off-site backup that will be used specifically by the backup scripts
• All the machines (servers and the backup machine) on a working Tinc VPN
• Enough space on the off-site backup machine :)

On the Off-site machine

• As lurk create directories for each server

mkdir /media/lurk_backup/douglas /media/lurk_backup/agnesbaxter