Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
From a backup point of view, my goal... On a nightly and automated basis - to take a snapshot of all new and modified data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed the nightly data may total ~20MB. It is worth to take a look at http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/, which is a tool focusing on automated (`lazy') or snapshot backup. Supported are most unices, there is no FreeBSD-port however. A windows' client utility is work in progress, though usable via cygwin now. Its main advantages: * backups via encrypted streams, public key infrastucture * only modified parts are to be transported * preserving the overwritten or deleted files * quota-support * userland RAID-option Have a nice day --tef ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:54:47 +0100, Sitkei Attila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a backup point of view, my goal... On a nightly and automated basis - to take a snapshot of all new and modified data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed the nightly data may total ~20MB. It is worth to take a look at http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/, which is a tool focusing on automated (`lazy') or snapshot backup. Supported are most unices, there is no FreeBSD-port however. A windows' client utility is work in progress, though usable via cygwin now. Its main advantages: * backups via encrypted streams, public key infrastucture * only modified parts are to be transported * preserving the overwritten or deleted files * quota-support * userland RAID-option I had never heard of boxbackup before, so thank you for the link! This tool appears to be the closest to what I am looking for. Hopefully the development continues. Cheers, ...D ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
Am 03.01.2005 um 17:11 schrieb Danny: On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:54:47 +0100, Sitkei Attila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had never heard of boxbackup before, so thank you for the link! This tool appears to be the closest to what I am looking for. Hopefully the development continues. I just looked at it, too, and it reminds me a bit of DIBS (http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~emin/source_code/dibs/index.html), a distributed backup system that can send your data to several computers across the network. While I have no experience with it myself, what is on the website looks quite interesting and you might want to check that out, too. Stephan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew P. Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:33 PM To: Danny Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely I don't want to sound like an ad, but I've heard some experienced backup officers say that if you're gonna backup proprietary platforms (i.e. Windows) you'd best use proprietary backup software. I would agree with this if the goal is to be able to restore a busted server. If the goal of the backup is merely to archive DATA, then this isn't true. Of course, it's important to understand that archiving data and backing up the server are two different things. With a server backup the goal is to create a restore set that allows you to come back from a flat server with a minimum amount of effort and time. With a data archive there is no goal to create a restore set - instead you want to get the data centralized and put to a medium that you have a ghost of a chance of being able to read in 10 years. (and that ain't Arcserve, my friends) And there's actually a *third* possible goal, which is quick recovery of accidentally deleted (or overwritten, etc.) user data. UFS2 filesystem snapshots are a remarkably easy way to provide this. And then there's RAID, which doesn't solve any of these problems, but can help you get back up fast after losing a disk. Each of these goals has a different best solution, and in some cases the solution even depends on the details of the environment. Figure out exactly what you need before deciding how to fill that need. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:16:43 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] If the goal of the backup is merely to archive DATA, then this isn't true. OK, I am not going to focus on archiving; the goal is to backup and restore. Thank you for all of your suggestions. I am currently investigating them all. ...D ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
On 30 Dec 2004 09:52:30 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And there's actually a *third* possible goal, which is quick recovery of accidentally deleted (or overwritten, etc.) user data. UFS2 filesystem snapshots are a remarkably easy way to provide this. This would be nice, but I am not going to get that granular at this point. Thank you for the reminder, though. And then there's RAID, which doesn't solve any of these problems, but can help you get back up fast after losing a disk. Hardware RAID, yes, for hardware failure. Got that covered. Each of these goals has a different best solution, and in some cases the solution even depends on the details of the environment. Figure out exactly what you need before deciding how to fill that need. From a backup point of view, my goal... On a nightly and automated basis - to take a snapshot of all new and modified data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed the nightly data may total ~20MB. From a restore point of view, my goal... To be able to download the compressed backup(s) from the remote server and restore the previous days data. Hopefully this explains my situation. Thank you, ...D ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
--- Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Dec 2004 09:52:30 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And there's actually a *third* possible goal, which is quick recovery of accidentally deleted (or overwritten, etc.) user data. UFS2 filesystem snapshots are a remarkably easy way to provide this. This would be nice, but I am not going to get that granular at this point. Thank you for the reminder, though. And then there's RAID, which doesn't solve any of these problems, but can help you get back up fast after losing a disk. Hardware RAID, yes, for hardware failure. Got that covered. Each of these goals has a different best solution, and in some cases the solution even depends on the details of the environment. Figure out exactly what you need before deciding how to fill that need. From a backup point of view, my goal... On a nightly and automated basis - to take a snapshot of all new and modified data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed the nightly data may total ~20MB. From a restore point of view, my goal... To be able to download the compressed backup(s) from the remote server and restore the previous days data. Hopefully this explains my situation. Thank you, ...D ___ I haven't caught all of this thread but I'll share what I do. I use rsync to sync file to a server for backup. 6 FreeBSD and one Win2K which have been set up to rsync at different times in the morning hours. On the Win2k machine, I have cygwin running that I use to rsync the data over every night. I think there is rsync for windows but I liked the command line capabilities that cygwin gives me. All use ssh in the rsync. So after the night rsync's, I'll have a copy of files on the backup server's harddrive and will also have a copy on tape. Tape runs in morning after all servers have sync'd. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:31:34 -0800 (PST), Dave McCammon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't caught all of this thread but I'll share what I do. I use rsync to sync file to a server for backup. 6 FreeBSD and one Win2K which have been set up to rsync at different times in the morning hours. Any of this communcation/transfer encrypted or compressed? What type of backup would you compare your solution to -- incremental, differential, full, etc.? How many GB's you transfer? On the Win2k machine, I have cygwin running that I use to rsync the data over every night. I think there is rsync for windows but I liked the command line capabilities that cygwin gives me. All use ssh in the rsync. [...] How do you restore files? ...D ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 11:55:18AM -0500, Danny wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:31:34 -0800 (PST), Dave McCammon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't caught all of this thread but I'll share what I do. I use rsync to sync file to a server for backup. 6 FreeBSD and one Win2K which have been set up to rsync at different times in the morning hours. Any of this communcation/transfer encrypted or compressed? What type of backup would you compare your solution to -- incremental, differential, full, etc.? How many GB's you transfer? On the Win2k machine, I have cygwin running that I use to rsync the data over every night. I think there is rsync for windows but I liked the command line capabilities that cygwin gives me. All use ssh in the rsync. [...] How do you restore files? ...D ___ Thats the rub with windows, or I think so, you can back it up but getting it to reload is the big if. I've restored a few programs from a backup, they run but they appear as bastar* exe, not in the reg. but will run without errors. If you load fresh you lose updated stuff, database index is not right for the updated program. Sorry just a personal rant. No such thing as a perfect backup yet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
Dave McCammon wrote: --- Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I haven't caught all of this thread but I'll share what I do. I use rsync to sync file to a server for backup. 6 FreeBSD and one Win2K which have been set up to rsync at different times in the morning hours. On the Win2k machine, I have cygwin running that I use to rsync the data over every night. I think there is rsync for windows but I liked the command line capabilities that cygwin gives me. All use ssh in the rsync. So after the night rsync's, I'll have a copy of files on the backup server's harddrive and will also have a copy on tape. Tape runs in morning after all servers have sync'd. I have a similar setup: a FreeBSD file and backup server with a dedicated hard drive that holds all of my backed up data. I mount the hdd read-write at midnight each night, and I have scheduled tasks that run at 1am on 5 Windows boxes that rsync (over an SSH tunnel) specific directories that I want to keep backed up to the FreeBSD box. I also have a local rsync job that runs on the FreeBSD box that backs up various locations in that system. For the Windows boxes, I use the cwrsync package, which is really just rsync with cygwin. I sort out the directory structure on the backup drive something like this: /[boxname]/[weekly.[0-2]|daily.[0-6]]/[backup_dirs] As you can tell from the directory structure, I run 7 days of incremental backups, and I also keep 3 weeks of full backups. I have scripts that run at 12:15am to rotate the various directories around so that the incremental backups can work. I compress the weekly backups via gzip to conserve hard disk space - I use the entirety of the 300gig drive. At 6:30am, I remount the hdd as a read-only drive. I push around about 20 gigs per night when everything is all said and done, but because this all happens over a local 100mbps network, it isn't that bad. I don't currently have any provision for providing easy, automated restore functionalities to the backups, and this is only onto a single hdd and not on tape or a raid array or anything, but it is good enough for my backup system at home. :-) -- Alan Gerber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
--- Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:31:34 -0800 (PST), Dave McCammon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't caught all of this thread but I'll share what I do. I use rsync to sync file to a server for backup. 6 FreeBSD and one Win2K which have been set up to rsync at different times in the morning hours. Any of this communcation/transfer encrypted or compressed? What type of backup would you compare your solution to -- incremental, differential, full, etc.? rsync in FreeBSD use ssh as default transport. rsync in cygwin is made to use ssh with command line option. Type of backup---read the man page for rsync-- It basically sync's a copy of whatever you tell it to to someplace that you tell it to. Whole file systems or just one file. Then the next time rsync runs, it copies the files that have changed since the last rsync. This is my explanation...please read the man page for more. Rsync is located in the ports. How many GB's you transfer? Total transfered a night..I don't know. It depends on what is on the machine. A few K on one machine, 70-90M per file on another, etc... All machines are on one LAN so no transfers over T1 yet. All-in-All there is 13G that is stored on the backup server from the 7 servers but not all 13G's are transfered every night. On the Win2k machine, I have cygwin running that I use to rsync the data over every night. I think there is rsync for windows but I liked the command line capabilities that cygwin gives me. All use ssh in the rsync. [...] How do you restore files? rsync them back or scp. I use dump on the tape backup so if an archived file(s)is needed it is restored to a different location then copied to the server where it is needed. __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:13:54 -0500, Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a backup point of view, my goal... On a nightly and automated basis - to take a snapshot of all new and modified data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed the nightly data may total ~20MB. From a restore point of view, my goal... To be able to download the compressed backup(s) from the remote server and restore the previous days data. Hopefully this explains my situation. You might want to check out the sysutils/duplicity port. This is its description: = Duplicity backs directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses librsync, the incremental archives are space efficient and only record the parts of files that have changed since the last backup. Because duplicity uses GnuPG to encrypt and/or sign these archives, they will be safe from spying and/or modification by the server. WWW: http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/ = I don't know if it works under Windows, but it's written in Python so it might. I used duplicity for a while to back up a system to another that was backed up on which I had an account but had no administrative control. (Hence, encrypted backups were a nice feature.) You might want to look at other ports such as sysutils/dar, archivers/rvm, sysutils/rsnapshot, etc. for ideas. Cheers, Paul. -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. --- Frank Vincent Zappa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
On 12/30/2004 8:13 AM Danny wrote: On 30 Dec 2004 09:52:30 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And there's actually a *third* possible goal, which is quick recovery of accidentally deleted (or overwritten, etc.) user data. UFS2 filesystem snapshots are a remarkably easy way to provide this. This would be nice, but I am not going to get that granular at this point. Thank you for the reminder, though. And then there's RAID, which doesn't solve any of these problems, but can help you get back up fast after losing a disk. Hardware RAID, yes, for hardware failure. Got that covered. Each of these goals has a different best solution, and in some cases the solution even depends on the details of the environment. Figure out exactly what you need before deciding how to fill that need. From a backup point of view, my goal... On a nightly and automated basis - to take a snapshot of all new and modified data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed the nightly data may total ~20MB. From a restore point of view, my goal... To be able to download the compressed backup(s) from the remote server and restore the previous days data. Hopefully this explains my situation. Thank you, ...D Have you looked at the Bacula port? The compression can be handled by Bacula. If you set up tunnels, that should handle the encryption part. Once you get used to the way Bacula works, it's fairly easy to use. You have a central machine that is the director and initiates and coordinates all of the backup jobs. You also have a storage daemon (which can be on the same machine as the director or another machine altogether) which stores all of the files. You can also have multiple storage daemons if you wish. And finally, you run a file daemon on every client you wish to backup. There are clients available for many different OSes. I use it to backup two FBSD boxes and 2 WinXP boxes to file volumes. Take a look and you might find it will meet most of your needs. Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
Good day to you all, I would greatly appreciate any recommendations, related experiences, and tips for the following goal: On a monthly and manual basis - to take a snapshot of data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed a snapshot of all the data may total over ~8GB. On a nightly and automated basis - to take a snapshot of all new and modified data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed the nightly data may total ~20MB. Anytime (assuming the remote server IS available, of course) - have the ability to access the data and restore the data files to any systems respective of what type it came from (Windows or BSD, etc). And if a full restore was necessary, the data may total over 10GB. Hardware and network-wise... here is what I was thinking: FreeBSD Windows Servers on the LAN | | LAN - firewalled v FreeBSD server where all the data would be collected and compressed v | | Internet - secure connection or transport of some type (SCP, SSH, VPN, etc.) | | Remote co-lo v FreeBSB server where all the data would be stored with at least RAID 1 Thank you! ...D ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:15:27 -0500 Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day to you all, I would greatly appreciate any recommendations, related experiences, and tips for the following goal: On a monthly and manual basis - to take a snapshot of data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed a snapshot of all the data may total over ~8GB. On a nightly and automated basis - to take a snapshot of all new and modified data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed the nightly data may total ~20MB. Anytime (assuming the remote server IS available, of course) - have the ability to access the data and restore the data files to any systems respective of what type it came from (Windows or BSD, etc). And if a full restore was necessary, the data may total over 10GB. Hardware and network-wise... here is what I was thinking: FreeBSD Windows Servers on the LAN | | LAN - firewalled v FreeBSD server where all the data would be collected and compressed v | | Internet - secure connection or transport of some type (SCP, SSH, VPN, etc.)| | Remote co-lo v FreeBSB server where all the data would be stored with at least RAID 1 I'm no FreeBSD expert, so others may know of a better solution. That said, I use BackupPC from http://backuppc.sf.net in Linux. It's not platform specific though, and can back up anything from *BSD to Linux to Windows to Mac OS X. Sending the resulting tar ball to a remote server would need to be done via a simple script file, but could be tied into the backup process using the DumpPostUserCmd or ArchivePostUserCmd variables. HTH, Jacob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
On 12/29/2004 10:15, Danny wrote: On a nightly and automated basis - to take a snapshot of all new and modified data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. I've been using rdiff-backup to mirror two arrays (locally), but its actually more designed for what you want to do. It works well for incremental backups and it does run on Microsoft if you check the FAQ (although I can't say that I've tried it on anything other than FreeBSD). You might want to take a look at it, it may be just what you are looking for: /usr/ports/sysutils/rdiff-backup/ http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:15:27 -0500, Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day to you all, I would greatly appreciate any recommendations, related experiences, and tips for the following goal: On a monthly and manual basis - to take a snapshot of data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed a snapshot of all the data may total over ~8GB. On a nightly and automated basis - to take a snapshot of all new and modified data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed the nightly data may total ~20MB. Anytime (assuming the remote server IS available, of course) - have the ability to access the data and restore the data files to any systems respective of what type it came from (Windows or BSD, etc). And if a full restore was necessary, the data may total over 10GB. Hardware and network-wise... here is what I was thinking: FreeBSD Windows Servers on the LAN | | LAN - firewalled v FreeBSD server where all the data would be collected and compressed v | | Internet - secure connection or transport of some type (SCP, SSH, VPN, etc.) | | Remote co-lo v FreeBSB server where all the data would be stored with at least RAID 1 here is a helpfull link that address's a similar issue: http://www.freebsddiary.org/bacula.php I have found bacula to be a very nice solution. it is also reasonable trivial to run bacula through a stunell. here is the link to the bacula site: www.bacula.org -pete Thank you! ...D ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
Danny wrote: Good day to you all, I would greatly appreciate any recommendations, related experiences, and tips for the following goal: On a monthly and manual basis - to take a snapshot of data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed a snapshot of all the data may total over ~8GB. On a nightly and automated basis - to take a snapshot of all new and modified data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed the nightly data may total ~20MB. Anytime (assuming the remote server IS available, of course) - have the ability to access the data and restore the data files to any systems respective of what type it came from (Windows or BSD, etc). And if a full restore was necessary, the data may total over 10GB. Hardware and network-wise... here is what I was thinking: FreeBSD Windows Servers on the LAN | | LAN - firewalled v FreeBSD server where all the data would be collected and compressed v | | Internet - secure connection or transport of some type (SCP, SSH, VPN, etc.) | | Remote co-lo v FreeBSB server where all the data would be stored with at least RAID 1 I don't want to sound like an ad, but I've heard some experienced backup officers say that if you're gonna backup proprietary platforms (i.e. Windows) you'd best use proprietary backup software. And it'll pay for itself. Look at ARCserve, then google further. Best wishes, Andrew P. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew P. Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:33 PM To: Danny Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely I don't want to sound like an ad, but I've heard some experienced backup officers say that if you're gonna backup proprietary platforms (i.e. Windows) you'd best use proprietary backup software. I would agree with this if the goal is to be able to restore a busted server. If the goal of the backup is merely to archive DATA, then this isn't true. Of course, it's important to understand that archiving data and backing up the server are two different things. With a server backup the goal is to create a restore set that allows you to come back from a flat server with a minimum amount of effort and time. With a data archive there is no goal to create a restore set - instead you want to get the data centralized and put to a medium that you have a ghost of a chance of being able to read in 10 years. (and that ain't Arcserve, my friends) Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
