From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 30 16:31:35 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 3AE3416A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:31:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web41407.mail.yahoo.com (web41407.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 16BFF43D46 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:31:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from davemac11@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 85149 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Dec 2004 16:31:35 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=4cPVXr2XB0XAayfgokNWoLbvKx0P+b9Gna2uw7HRf/prqS7WHatPOlD9ti42f+zoxaSsPK+c222eMVeNB0QbO4YbihvPZpazE8+k9ryziYtu+rd6pjlkt0rWjgoU7rpvM9vL18xrkMsl4DpQl9Md12FVw69XFdX0p8A9wft00hA= ; Message-ID: <20041230163135.85147.qmail@web41407.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [168.91.4.66] by web41407.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:31:34 PST Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:31:34 -0800 (PST) From: Dave McCammon To: Danny In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: questions@freebsd.org 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: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:31:35 -0000 --- Danny wrote: > On 30 Dec 2004 09:52:30 -0500, Lowell Gilbert > 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