From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 15 02:33:59 2003 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 82E1137B404 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 02:33:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foem.leiden.webweaving.org (fia224-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50C243F85 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 02:33:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) Received: from foem (foem [10.11.0.2])h6F9Xpen035993 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:33:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:33:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik X-X-Sender: dirkx@foem To: Nico Meijer In-Reply-To: <20030715112858.3503e7a1.nico.meijer@zonnet.nl> Message-ID: <20030715113323.V96627-100000@foem> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup over the internet. 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: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:33:59 -0000 On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Nico Meijer wrote: > > What is the easy way to back up over the internet? What software > > should be used? > > You *could* use rsync. Performed over ssh, this enables you to backup > quickly and safely, depending on what you'd like to backup. It's a > killer tool, AFAIAC. > > http://rsync.samba.org/ and I guess `man rsync`. amanda (www.amanda.org, or from ports) does a fine job if you have multiple machines which needs to be backed-up. Dw.