From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 30 17:45:59 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 5477B16A4DB for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:45:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web41405.mail.yahoo.com (web41405.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00DF343D2F for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:45:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from davemac11@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 85896 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Dec 2004 17:45:58 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=sbQVY6HJzWWtqvYpFjKrznnP/3JHPszDb0G99TETcvOQAEUPDVxBdPdWDlOVXD/qPg2FtM98dBSvpTRej+doUZYjKR1WxPZ4qCvnySUdSjnErYTkAF8pkptL6UVHfQOOE8Ty8D82xlfdTUFWKdsHAg8+EjGeEHSnivboy2Miqac= ; Message-ID: <20041230174558.85894.qmail@web41405.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [168.91.4.66] by web41405.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:45:58 PST Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:45:58 -0800 (PST) From: Dave McCammon To: Danny In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: questions@freebsd.org 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 17:45:59 -0000 --- Danny wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:31:34 -0800 (PST), Dave > McCammon > wrote: > > I haven't caught all of this thread but I'll share > > what I do. > > I use rsync to sync file to a server for backup. > > 6 FreeBSD and one Win2K which have been set up to > > rsync at different times in the morning hours. > > Any of this communcation/transfer encrypted or > compressed? What type > of backup would you compare your solution to -- > incremental, > differential, full, etc.? > rsync in FreeBSD use ssh as default transport. rsync in cygwin is made to use ssh with command line option. Type of backup---read the man page for rsync-- It basically sync's a copy of whatever you tell it to to someplace that you tell it to. Whole file systems or just one file. Then the next time rsync runs, it copies the files that have changed since the last rsync. This is my explanation...please read the man page for more. Rsync is located in the ports. > How many GB's you transfer? Total transfered a night..I don't know. It depends on what is on the machine. A few K on one machine, 70-90M per file on another, etc... All machines are on one LAN so no transfers over T1 yet. All-in-All there is 13G that is stored on the backup server from the 7 servers but not all 13G's are transfered every night. > > > On the Win2k machine, I have cygwin running that I > use > > to rsync the data over every night. I think there > is > > rsync for windows but I liked the command line > > capabilities that cygwin gives me. > > All use ssh in the rsync. > [...] > > How do you restore files? > rsync them back or scp. I use dump on the tape backup so if an archived file(s)is needed it is restored to a different location then copied to the server where it is needed. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com