backing up remote servers

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 18.08.2005 schrieb Noah um 2:48:

> Well I just built a nice happy Fedora box with a ton of dirve space here at
> home and trying to get a scheme for using it to backup two servers I have at
> my colo facility.
> 
> what are my other options for backup?  I know there is rsync.  is rsync
> incredibly insecure?  what else is out there?

It is common to tunnel rsync through ssh.

> Noah

Have a look at rdiff-backup: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
It is available through Fedora Extras as an rpm package. A nice howto is
following:

http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/rdiff/

Alexander


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