From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 19:35:46 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 120E916A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:35:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from longbow.arroway.com (peppercornbooks.com [66.252.129.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77E4843D2F for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:35:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stormspotter@6Texans.net) Received: (qmail 22574 invoked by uid 1007); 29 Dec 2004 19:35:44 -0000 Received: from stormspotter@6Texans.net by longbow by uid 1004 with qmail-scanner-1.22-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.75.1. spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(64.109.18.249):. Processed in 0.309226 secs); 29 Dec 2004 19:35:44 -0000 Received: from adsl-64-109-18-249.dsl.rcfril.ameritech.net (HELO jacob.6texans.net) (64.109.18.249) by longbow.arroway.com with SMTP; 29 Dec 2004 19:35:44 -0000 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:37:39 -0600 From: Jacob S To: FreeBSD-questions Message-ID: <20041229133739.239886e6@jacob.6texans.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12b (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely 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, 29 Dec 2004 19:35:46 -0000 On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:15:27 -0500 Danny wrote: > Good day to you all, > > I would greatly appreciate any recommendations, related experiences, > and tips for the following goal: > > On a monthly and manual basis - to take a snapshot of data from a > FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt > the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server through some form of > efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed a snapshot of all the > data may total over ~8GB. > > On a nightly and automated basis - to take a snapshot of all new and > modified data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress > and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server > through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed > the nightly data may total ~20MB. > > Anytime (assuming the remote server IS available, of course) - have > the ability to access the data and restore the data files to any > systems respective of what type it came from (Windows or BSD, etc). > And if a full restore was necessary, the data may total over 10GB. > > Hardware and network-wise... here is what I was thinking: > > FreeBSD & Windows Servers on the LAN > | > | LAN - firewalled > v > FreeBSD server where all the data would be collected and compressed > v > | > | Internet - secure connection or transport of some type (SCP, SSH, > VPN, etc.)| > | Remote co-lo > v > FreeBSB server where all the data would be stored with at least RAID 1 I'm no FreeBSD expert, so others may know of a better solution. That said, I use BackupPC from http://backuppc.sf.net in Linux. It's not platform specific though, and can back up anything from *BSD to Linux to Windows to Mac OS X. Sending the resulting tar ball to a remote server would need to be done via a simple script file, but could be tied into the backup process using the DumpPostUserCmd or ArchivePostUserCmd variables. HTH, Jacob