On 4/27/07, Joachim Schrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
G.T.Smith wrote:> Dirvish is impressive but I think it would best with a SAN > or dedicated backend backup server solution. We use it since some time; it was straight forward to set up. Well, if one doesn't complicate it oneself. :-) We additionally backup some of our data to a server at a hosting company (HostEurope); that data is very confidential and we don't really trust the security of the hosting situation. So we have a (cryptographically authenticated) VPN to that server, over which we do an NFS mount of one of its filesystems. There resides a file that we crypt-mount locally on our system and then do a dirvish-backup into that locally-crypt-mounted-filesystem-in-file-on-NFS-mounted-directory-over-VPN-on-untrusted-host. Yep, that's a mouth full. :-) When one of my staff proposed that solution, I didn't like it at first for its complexity -- but it works like a charm and is much cheaper than an outsourced backup solution; hosted servers are really cheap nowadays. (And please note that this is our 2nd backup of the data; the 1st backup is locally in our company and is used normally. That's why we don't want to spend too much money here.) Joachim
Joachim I'm experimenting with a similar need via rdiff-backup. I have my local rdiff-backup copies stored into encfs filesystems. Then I rsync the raw (encrypted) filesystem offsite to a hosted server every night. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
