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

[Paul Mather]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:13:54 -0500, Danny <nocmonkey at gmail.com> 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:

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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/
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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.

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