From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 4 12:37:55 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 DC04116A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:37:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from destiny.chrononomicon.com (mail.chrononomicon.com [65.193.73.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B0343D54 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:37:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (destiny.chrononomicon.com [192.168.1.42]) by destiny.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9D2A1FE26 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 08:37:48 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) In-Reply-To: <20040804100959.E23192@chylonia.3miasto.net> References: <20040804100300.3af0d4fb@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> <1054.217.162.71.141.1091601928.squirrel@217.162.71.141> <20040804100959.E23192@chylonia.3miasto.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <16E44025-E613-11D8-8831-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 08:37:47 -0400 To: freebsd-questions Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) 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 12:37:56 -0000 On Aug 4, 2004, at 4:11 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > >> we are currently developing a small program/service for our customers >> exactly for this purpose. >> >> To just backup the data to a remote server is very easy, even on >> Windows: >> Use cygwin. It comes together with rsync and ssh. I recommend you use >> rsync since it is the most effective AFAIK and the transfer is safe >> (not >> unimportant to law companies). Then you could run a nightly task to >> backup >> the data. > > what is unsafe of rsh for example if network through which is going the > traffic is under your control? > > ssh is SLOW. Howso? Using rsync with SSH wrapper allows you to not only alter only files that have been altered but as I understand it rsync will only copy changes within files over to the remote site. SSH can be used to compress the transfer in addition to (of course) encrypting the connection and transfer, and it can be partially automated to allow login without passwords if you save the generated public key... For the information supplied about what the customer would like done, using the SSH with Rsync may be ideal for low cost and reliable backups to a remote site. -Bart