From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 23 13:04:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D15106564A for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:04:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jorge@jorge.cc) Received: from mail.jorge.cc (mail.jorge.cc [69.55.232.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB3A78FC24 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:04:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.jorge.cc (mail.jorge.cc Daemon, from userid 1002) id 7F2F5108901; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 08:57:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 08:57:39 -0400 From: Jorge Luis Gonzalez To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120623125739.GA82828@jorge.cc> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20120622160903.GE24912@hemlock.hydra> <20120622184740.GA67847@slackbox.erewhon.net> <20120623003717.GD7876@hemlock.hydra> <20120623075928.GA19093@slackbox.erewhon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i "From: Jorge Luis Gonzalez " "Organization: Acme Aesthetic Products" "X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p4" Organization: Acme Aesthetic Products X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p4 Subject: Re: backup tools 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, 23 Jun 2012 13:04:27 -0000 Wojciech Puchar: > > > >Hmm, I'm not sure that there is _anything_ that meets _all_ your criteria! > > rsync meets. It can be a little harder with windoze, with any unix-like OS > it will work. > rsync, or some front-end to rsync, is indeed probably the best option, though it lacks several of the features that the OP indicates would be desirable. For several years I've used dirvish to good effect. It's built on rsync and handles unattended backups over heterogeneous networks quite well. It shares some of rsync's deficiencies, but for me, its merits (well-structured simplifications of rsync's ability to exclude files or directories, elegant handling of backups' expirations) are sufficient to make it a worthy alternative to naked rsync. The frontend is written in Perl and easily extended. By "heterogeneous networks" I'm afraid I mean ones composed of machines running unix-like OSs; I've no idea if there's an rsync port to Windows. Jorge -- Jorge Luis González http://www.jorge.cc/ * ftp://ftp.jorge.cc/{pub,incoming} IRC: #vim jl-satyr * XMPP: jl-satyr@jabber.org GPG KEY -> 0x4AD9C195 * ICBM: 42.592627, -72.588859 This email optimized for teletypes.