> Hey.
Yo.
> Currently my backup regime is woeful.
> I have years worth of work on a Windows machine
^^^^^^^
> and some stuff
> scattered across OpenBSD machines.
>
> I'm thinking of building a machine (the file server) to provide some
> backup and central storage.
Solaris
ZFS
> Being able to push data to the server manually from Windows and other
> operating systems over the network. SSH or IPsec or similar is my idea
> here.
Windows is a weakspot since it is so bad and has few standard tools. You
could probably script Filezilla to SSH what you want to the file server.
Everybody else can simply mount NFS shares, dead easy with ZFS. Or you could
rsync from non-Windows systems to Solaris.
>
> Having some mechanism where I can pull onto the server from the
> clients at selected times or poll the machines for changes and update
> the server or something.
You can script cron jobs to rsync from everywhere but on Windows.
> I have no experience here and I'm thinking about acronyms like NFS,
> rsync, etcetera.
NFS is better for sharing in real time. For backups rsync is hard to beat
but Windows is a weak point as mentioned by other posters.
>
> This is for a small number of machines and low rate data changes but
> if I can find something that's in base, scalable, robust, secure,
> simple, quick ...
Solaris
ZFS
> Please give me some recommended acronyms, man pages, etcetera.
PLEASE check the Solaris HCL and possible zfs-disc...@opensolaris.org before
building a file server. If you pick the wrong components, ZFS will hurt you
badly. If you pick the right components you will be so happy.
