Hi Dan,
What is the easy way to back up over the internet? What software
should be used?
You *could* use rsync. Performed over ssh, this enables you to backup
quickly and safely, depending on what you'd like to backup. It's a
killer tool, AFAIAC.
http://rsync.samba.org/ and I guess `man
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Nico Meijer wrote:
What is the easy way to back up over the internet? What software
should be used?
You *could* use rsync. Performed over ssh, this enables you to backup
quickly and safely, depending on what you'd like to backup. It's a
killer tool, AFAIAC.
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, DanB wrote:
What is the easy way to back up over the internet? What software should
be used?
I have been using afbackup (http://sourceforge.net/projects/afbackup/)
with Linux for the past two years. I saw in the ports tree and I would go
with it (haven't though tried the
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:08:15AM +, DanB wrote:
What is the easy way to back up over the internet? What software should
be used?
That's a rather vague question, which makes it pretty hard to give a
sensible answer, I'm afraid.
Ease is a very subjective thing. There's certainly many more
As I understand it dump will not backup everything reading the Freebsd book. I
have a 1.5Mbps connection. Files seems to be about 3.1 Gigs each on 4
different machines . I have a freebsd box with extra 12 Gigs of space that I
can save to. I would like to save to a cd writer on the same machine
Something piped through ssh using DSA keys.
e.g.
on the machine which you want backed up (client) to the machine where the
backup file lives,
client machine:
su root
# if you have not yet created your ssh keys, do so now
ssh-keygen -d
on the server machine,
pw useradd clientmachineid -m
su
I've been using a program called rdiff-backup (
http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/ ), based on librsync. This package
creates a mirror of your server (or any portion thereof) on a remote
server, and keeps track of changes. It only sends changes (ie diff)
across the wire, including binaries, so
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Hash: SHA1
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 14:29, Alvin Gunkel wrote:
I've been using a program called rdiff-backup (
http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/ ), based on librsync. This package
creates a mirror of your server (or any portion thereof) on a remote
server,
