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

[Danny]

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.?

How many GB's you transfer?

> 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.
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How do you restore files?


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