Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:17:48 -0600 (CST) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: Gable Barber <gablebarber@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20070126161639.G47013@bravo.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <aab166ce0701261310y2b6b6855o42ce8f426b04d42d@mail.gmail.com> References: <aab166ce0701261310y2b6b6855o42ce8f426b04d42d@mail.gmail.com>
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> Hello all, > I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use > backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the > future). > > Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. > I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now) clients to > automatically, incrementally backup certain directories, nightly. > Something encrypted would be nice aswell. > > This one looks interesting to me: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/ > > If anyone has used an open source solution for this , I would > genuinely appreciate hearing about it. I don't, but you could use rsync over ssh if you just want a mirrored copy... and if you set up rsync to archive changed files you can keep a history as well. I do that for about 20 servers now and it works great. No reason a mac wouldn't work. Let me know if you're interested in the scripts...
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