From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 20:07:13 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 726E216A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:07:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jnumail1.state.ak.us (jnumail1.state.ak.us [146.63.248.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0402543D5A for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:07:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter_giessel@dot.state.ak.us) Received: from smtpj.state.ak.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jnumail1.state.ak.us (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.02 (built Oct 21 2004)) questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:07:09 -0900 (AKST) Received: from dot.state.ak.us ([158.145.111.132]) by smtpj.state.ak.us (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.02 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTPS id <0I9I008302M42E@smtpj.state.ak.us>; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:08:28 -0900 (AKST) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:06:49 -0900 From: "Peter A. Giessel" In-reply-to: To: Danny Message-id: <41D30E59.3050802@dot.state.ak.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 References: cc: FreeBSD-questions 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: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:07:13 -0000 On 12/29/2004 10:15, Danny wrote: > On a nightly and automated basis - to take a snapshot of all new and > modified data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. I've been using rdiff-backup to mirror two arrays (locally), but its actually more designed for what you want to do. It works well for incremental backups and it does run on Microsoft if you check the FAQ (although I can't say that I've tried it on anything other than FreeBSD). You might want to take a look at it, it may be just what you are looking for: /usr/ports/sysutils/rdiff-backup/ http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/