From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 4 13:30:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1400237B416 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 13:30:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02230; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 14:30:25 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011104142751.042dc850@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 14:30:09 -0700 To: Francisco Reyes , FreeBSD Chat List From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Mini survey. Backup service for BSDs In-Reply-To: <20011104142909.F18641-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Francisco: There are already a few commercial products that will back up BSD machines, but I don't know of any remote backup services. The big problem is bandwidth; even if you do a differential backup, the volume generated by a company of any size is likely to be large. --Brett At 12:39 PM 11/4/2001, Francisco Reyes wrote: >I have been pondering the idea of making a backup service for BSDs. >It seems there are many for windows, but few (none?) for BSDs (or that >would work with BSDs). > >So far I am thinking of using unison (simmilar to rsync, but simpler to >learn/use) over ssh. The remaining issue is trying to find a crypto >filesystem. > >Thoughts? >I am thinking something along the lines: >Space Cost >100MB $20 >200MB $30 >500MB $50 > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message