From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 4 00:33:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C76916A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 00:33:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gw.visp.com.au (gw.visp.com.au [202.6.158.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3574043D4C for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 00:33:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tim@spyderweb.com.au) Received: from bofh.spyderweb.com.au (202-6-150-37.ip.visp.com.au [202.6.150.37] (may be forged)) by gw.visp.com.au (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i740XKEc038023 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:03:20 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from tim@spyderweb.com.au) Received: from spyderweb.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1])i740X0pC050131 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:03:00 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from tim@spyderweb.com.au) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:03:00 +0930 From: Tim Aslat To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040804100300.3af0d4fb@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> In-Reply-To: <005501c479b5$6c0f4cc0$6401a8c0@Nomad> References: <005501c479b5$6c0f4cc0$6401a8c0@Nomad> Organization: Spyderweb Consulting X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Remote backup hosting setup? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 00:33:20 -0000 In the immortal words of "Eric Crist" ... > I was recently contacted by a lawfirm that needs a remote backup > solution to help bring their insurance rates down. I've decided to go > ahead and do this, as their needs are not that great. Sounds simple enough > What I'm asking, is how best to setup this situation. I've never > played with jails or anything, but I'm not sure if I really need to go > that far. I'm considering building a server that has ssh and sftp > access. The plan is to allow them to upload at their pace, and provide > next-day DVD/CD copies of their entire directory structure. Try one of the multitude of rsync based scripts, you can even get some very good incremental backups happening, and burning DVDs/ dumping to tape/etc is simple enough top script as well. Rsync by default works over ssh so can be very secure. The had part would be, how do these people want to retrieve the data? If you are just handing them media once a day, then it's simple, but if they want to retrieve it remotely as well, then you could be in for some fun and games. Cheers Tim -- Tim Aslat Spyderweb Consulting http://www.spyderweb.com.au Phone: +61 0401088479