From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 21:21:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F62F16A423 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:21:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivoras@fer.hr) Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr (lara.cc.fer.hr [161.53.72.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 800A243D48 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:21:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ivoras@fer.hr) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.cc.fer.hr [127.0.0.1]) by lara.cc.fer.hr (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2VLLJhT074192 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:21:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ivoras@fer.hr) Message-ID: <442D9D4F.2000800@fer.hr> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:21:19 +0200 From: Ivan Voras User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050921) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Backups X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:21:57 -0000 Brian Doherty wrote: > I have built a redundant freeBSD box for my mail server, and for my > webserver, and am putting the redundant boxes in a different geographic > location. I am looking for a way to backup the relevant data on the current > mail and webservers to the new redundant boxes every night. I could use scp > and do a full backup every night but I remember hearing of a piece of bsd > software that can compare the two file systems and just copy the changes. > This would dramatically cut down on the traffic across the link between the > machines. You can try rsync (http://rsync.samba.org/) or rdiff-backup (http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/)