yama/docs/datman/remote_backups.md

Remote Backups

Backup up a remote source into a local destination

First set up a remote host like the following:

[remote_hosts.myhost]
# Specify an SSH user@host pair
user_at_host = "backup@myhost.example.com"
# Optional: override path to Datman (may be useful for using one with special privileges)
path_to_datman = "/path/to/datman"

And set up a source using the same hostname:

[sources.mysourcename]
directory = "/path/to/source/on/remote"
hostname = "myhost"

Currently the use of helpers is not possible using this approach, but some of them have direct support for SSH targets.

Unimplemented: It would be useful to offload compression onto the remote.