Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:31:34 -0800 (PST) From: Dave McCammon <davemac11@yahoo.com> To: Danny <nocmonkey@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely Message-ID: <20041230163135.85147.qmail@web41407.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <addc34c604123008137e9166a0@mail.gmail.com>
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--- Danny <nocmonkey@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 Dec 2004 09:52:30 -0500, Lowell Gilbert > <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > > And there's actually a *third* possible goal, > which is quick recovery > > of accidentally deleted (or overwritten, etc.) > user data. UFS2 > > filesystem snapshots are a remarkably easy way to > provide this. > > This would be nice, but I am not going to get that > granular at this > point. Thank you for the reminder, though. > > > And then there's RAID, which doesn't solve any of > these problems, but > > can help you get back up fast after losing a disk. > > Hardware RAID, yes, for hardware failure. Got that > covered. > > > Each of these goals has a different "best > solution," and in some cases > > the solution even depends on the details of the > environment. Figure > > out exactly what you need before deciding how to > fill that need. > > >From a backup point of view, my goal... > > 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. > > >From a restore point of view, my goal... > > To be able to download the compressed backup(s) from > the remote server > and restore the previous days data. > > Hopefully this explains my situation. > > Thank you, > > ...D > _______________________________________________ > I haven't caught all of this thread but I'll share what I do. I use rsync to sync file to a server for backup. 6 FreeBSD and one Win2K which have been set up to rsync at different times in the morning hours. On the Win2k machine, I have cygwin running that I use to rsync the data over every night. I think there is rsync for windows but I liked the command line capabilities that cygwin gives me. All use ssh in the rsync. So after the night rsync's, I'll have a copy of files on the backup server's harddrive and will also have a copy on tape. Tape runs in morning after all servers have sync'd. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
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