Are there any specific scripting tools that I could use in order to achieve that ?
From what you are describing a tool that would automate the dump process and take care of snapshots versions would be a must… ?? Any idea ? Le 17 déc. 2009 à 18:12, Roland Smith a écrit : > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:29:54PM +0100, bsd wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have been provided with a 1To backup space by my hosting company… >> unfortunately It is only accessible by FTP which does not allow me to do the >> regular backup / restore I use to do using RSYNC. >> >> >> What are the options I have in order to do the backup / restore of the files >> knowing that : >> >> 1. I would like to have a time based backup solution (incremental with >> sub-folder for daily backup so I can restore files from xxx days ago). >> >> 2. I need to use ftp as a transport >> >> 3. Some of my servers have limited space so doing a local sync then FTP will >> not be possible. >> >> 4. If possible I would like a bullet proof solution ideally "well known" | >> tested and available from the port tree. > > There are several avenues available even with the tools in the base system. > > One of those is to use dump(8), assuming you are using UFS filesystems, of > course. Make regular dumps (of different levels), compress them using > bzip2(1), encrypt the compressed dumpfiles using openssl(1) (do _not_ use > crypt(1)!) and use ftp(1) to transfer them to the hosting company. > > Another way is to use mtree(8). You can use this to generate a file > containing the > state of a filesystem hierarchy. Running it against a previously saved > specification can yield a list of files that have changed. Use tar and bzip2 > to create an archive of the files that have changed. Encrypt and send same as > above. > > All these programs come with the base system, you would just need to script > them. > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Gregober ---> PGP ID --> 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ P "Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"