FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely

[Danny]

On 30 Dec 2004 09:52:30 -0500, Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> 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