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

Dave McCammon davemac11 at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 30 09:45:59 PST 2004


--- Danny <nocmonkey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:31:34 -0800 (PST), Dave
> McCammon
> <davemac11 at yahoo.com> 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.




		
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