From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 18 08:38:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 310C116A41F for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:38:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E99143D45 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:38:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [82.41.37.55] ([82.41.37.55]) by smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:39:04 +0100 Message-ID: <430448F9.5020308@dial.pipex.com> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:38:17 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050530 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Noah References: <20050818005401.M38776@enabled.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20050817181918.053b1eb0@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050817181918.053b1eb0@cobalt.antimatter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Aug 2005 08:39:04.0858 (UTC) FILETIME=[4A836FA0:01C5A3D0] Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: backing up remote servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:38:20 -0000 Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 05:54 PM 8/17/2005, Noah wrote: > >> Hey there, >> >> Well I just built a nice happy Fedora box with a ton of dirve space >> here at >> home and trying to get a scheme for using it to backup two servers I >> have at >> my colo facility. >> >> what are my other options for backup? I know there is rsync. is rsync >> incredibly insecure? what else is out there? > > > You do realize that this a FreeBSD mailing list and has nothing to do > with fedora or linux... But to answer your question anyway, since we're so nice... ;-) You can use ssh as the connection protocol for rsync, so communication is then encrypted. Rsync will then be as safe as your ssh. There are howtos out there about setting up ssh keys that *only* allow rsync connections. I found them easily with google. Other options would include tar, cpio, whatever dump program you have at the colo, and just about any other archiving utility. It all depends what you want. Rsync will give you an up-to-date copy of your remote drives; an archiving utility would let you do full-and-incremental style backups potentially giving you multiple snapshots. Or you could alternate where you do the rsync to (say every week), to get multiple snapshots that way. --Alex