From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 3 17:24:52 2005 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 D770716A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:24:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ew.co.za (g2.endorphinweb.co.za [196.41.15.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3717A43D58 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:24:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsdlists@mnet-online.de) X-Scanned-By: RAE MPP/Sophos http://raeinternet.com/mpp X-Scanned-By: RAE MPP/ClamAV http://raeinternet.com/mpp Received: from [62.245.243.32] (unverified [62.245.243.32]) by ew.co.za (SurgeMail 2.2d) with ESMTP id 33128 for multiple; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:23:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <20041230175745.A151A16A4D0@hub.freebsd.org> <41D455CF.2040802@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <41D93287.8070105@pmihiv.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <2EEB56F1-5DAC-11D9-A856-000A95D5F764@mnet-online.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stephan Lichtenauer Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:23:28 +0100 To: Danny X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com X-Authenticated-User: s01@lichtenauer.co.za cc: Sitkei Attila cc: freebsd-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: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:24:52 -0000 Am 03.01.2005 um 17:11 schrieb Danny: > On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:54:47 +0100, Sitkei Attila > wrote: > > I had never heard of boxbackup before, so thank you for the link! This > tool appears to be the closest to what I am looking for. Hopefully the > development continues. > I just looked at it, too, and it reminds me a bit of DIBS (http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~emin/source_code/dibs/index.html), a distributed backup system that can send your data to several computers across the network. While I have no experience with it myself, what is on the website looks quite interesting and you might want to check that out, too. Stephan