From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 30 19:24:01 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 46E8216A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:24:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao07.cox.net (lakermmtao07.cox.net [68.230.240.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C94443D45 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:24:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (really [68.110.143.167]) by lakermmtao07.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.04 201-2131-111-106-20040729) with ESMTP id <20041230192359.QJPA20686.lakermmtao07.cox.net@[192.168.0.100]>; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:23:59 -0500 Message-ID: <41D455CF.2040802@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:23:59 -0500 From: Paul Mather User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20041230175745.A151A16A4D0@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20041230175745.A151A16A4D0@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Danny 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 19:24:01 -0000 On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:13:54 -0500, Danny wrote: >>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. > > You might want to check out the sysutils/duplicity port. This is its description: ===== Duplicity backs directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses librsync, the incremental archives are space efficient and only record the parts of files that have changed since the last backup. Because duplicity uses GnuPG to encrypt and/or sign these archives, they will be safe from spying and/or modification by the server. WWW: http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/ ===== I don't know if it works under Windows, but it's written in Python so it might. I used duplicity for a while to back up a system to another that was backed up on which I had an account but had no administrative control. (Hence, encrypted backups were a nice feature.) You might want to look at other ports such as sysutils/dar, archivers/rvm, sysutils/rsnapshot, etc. for ideas. Cheers, Paul. -- e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --- Frank Vincent Zappa