Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:09:31 +0000 From: Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com> To: Gable Barber <gablebarber@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD Message-ID: <45BAA64B.20406@thingy.com> In-Reply-To: <aab166ce0701261310y2b6b6855o42ce8f426b04d42d@mail.gmail.com> References: <aab166ce0701261310y2b6b6855o42ce8f426b04d42d@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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