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Date:      Sun, 4 Nov 2001 22:49:44 -0500 (EST)
From:      Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>, FreeBSD Chat List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Mini survey. Backup service for BSDs
Message-ID:  <20011104224602.D19362-100000@zoraida.natserv.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011104142751.042dc850@localhost>

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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Brett Glass wrote:

> 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.

Any program which uses the Rsync algorithm helps out a lot. An office that
I am backing up took about 6 hours for the first upload, but after that
all updates have taken less than 20 minutes.


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