RE: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-04 Thread Eric Crist
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Aslat Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 7:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Remote backup hosting setup? In the immortal words of Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED]... I was recently contacted

RE: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-04 Thread David E. Meier
Hi Eric, we are currently developing a small program/service for our customers exactly for this purpose. To just backup the data to a remote server is very easy, even on Windows: Use cygwin. It comes together with rsync and ssh. I recommend you use rsync since it is the most effective AFAIK and

RE: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 we are currently developing a small program/service for our customers exactly for this purpose. To just backup the data to a remote server is very easy, even on Windows: Use cygwin. It comes together with rsync and ssh. I recommend you use rsync

Re: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-04 Thread Peter Risdon
Eric Crist wrote: Hello list, I was recently contacted by a lawfirm that needs a remote backup solution to help bring their insurance rates down. I've decided to go ahead and do this, as their needs are not that great. What I'm asking, is how best to setup this situation. I've never played with

Re: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-04 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Aug 4, 2004, at 4:11 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 we are currently developing a small program/service for our customers exactly for this purpose. To just backup the data to a remote server is very easy, even on Windows: Use cygwin. It comes together

Re: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Shenton
Tim Aslat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try one of the multitude of rsync based scripts, you can even get some very good incremental backups happening, I have been thinking about this for my own use. One problem with basic rsync is that if (say) I trash a critical file and don't notice it for a

Re: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-04 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Aug 4, 2004, at 1:44 PM, Chris Shenton wrote: Tim Aslat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try one of the multitude of rsync based scripts, you can even get some very good incremental backups happening, I have been thinking about this for my own use. One problem with basic rsync is that if (say) I

Re: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-04 Thread David E. Meier
So I've been thinking of having maybe 5 different copies at the destination and rsyncing to a different one each night so I have 5 different backups to go to -- just like in the days of tape. Something conceptually like: rsync -avR --delete / remote:/BACKUP/`expr $dayofyear % 5`/ Yeah,

Re: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-04 Thread Gary Mulder
Check out rdiff-backup: http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu It not only generates a mirror copy of the current system, but also generates diff files that can be applied to the mirror to do a point-in-time restore. Gary -- Gary Mulder mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Info Tech, Inc. 5700 SW 34th

Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-03 Thread Eric Crist
Hello list, I was recently contacted by a lawfirm that needs a remote backup solution to help bring their insurance rates down. I've decided to go ahead and do this, as their needs are not that great. What I'm asking, is how best to setup this situation. I've never played with jails or

Re: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-03 Thread Tim Aslat
In the immortal words of Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED]... I was recently contacted by a lawfirm that needs a remote backup solution to help bring their insurance rates down. I've decided to go ahead and do this, as their needs are not that great. Sounds simple enough What I'm asking, is how

RE: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-03 Thread Andras Kende
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Crist Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 6:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Remote backup hosting setup? Hello list, I was recently contacted by a lawfirm that needs a remote backup solution to help