From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 27 01:09:21 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A7416A401 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:09:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: from mail.thingy.com (wotsit.thingy.com [212.21.100.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 085B213C458 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:09:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: (qmail 7960 invoked by uid 0); 27 Jan 2007 01:09:19 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.12?) (howie@thingy.com@212.21.124.49) by wotsit3.thingy.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 27 Jan 2007 01:09:19 +0000 Message-ID: <45BAA64B.20406@thingy.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:09:31 +0000 From: Howard Jones User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gable Barber , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD 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: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:09:21 -0000 Gable Barber wrote: > 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. > You might like to try duplicity or rdiff-backup. Both are python-based incremental backup solutions, that can work over encrypted connections. duplicity can also encrypt the backed-up data for untrusted central sites, while rdiff-backup has the advantage that the backup is a normal mirror of the backed-up machine (plus reverse increments), so you can pick though it. duplicity is initiated from the client over FTP/SCP/DAV/S3, while rdiff-backup is initiated by the server normally using SSH. I've been using rdiff-backup on a few dozen FreeBSD servers for a year or so now. I've not tried them on my macs yet but I don't see a reason why it *wouldn't* work - python tends to be pretty portable. I'll try it on the macs this weekend, in fact. Howie