hickinbottoms wrote: > If you have a server that doesn't run Windows, and want automatic > off-site backups, then I recommend Box Backup: > > http://bbdev.fluffy.co.uk/trac/wiki > > Secure, encrypted, incremental backups to a remote location. Keeps old > and deleted versions of files (until the store is full, in which case > it starts removing the oldest 'old versions'), can run continuously and > is very bandwidth efficient. > > The big advantage is that the server can be untrusted - it cannot > decrypt the backups it holds as the clients keep the keys and encrypt > the traffic before uploading. Perfect for backing up to a friends house > or another server you can't trust. > > It's saved my bacon a few times over the last couple of years. > > And it's free and open source. Note that although the server can't be > Windows-based, clients can be. One server can also keep separate backup > stores for any number of clients. >
That looks very interesting. In fact I've tried to talk a colleague into writing something like this quite some time ago. The encryption part that allows backups to be stored on a friends server without privacy issues is very cool and was part of my idea as well. Thanks for the link. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
