On Thursday 23 April 2009, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Yuval Hager <yu...@avramzon.net> writes: > > Well, I was looking for a more streamlined solution. Something that is: > > 1) automatic > > 2) offsite (e.g. online) > > 3) bandwidth and space efficient (due to (2) above) > > 4) (opt.) encrypted > > 5) incremental > > A combination of tar (that can do incremental backups) and scp or > similar will do 2, 3, and 5. 1 can be handled by cron. 4 probably has > to be delegated to openssl like was suggested, encrypting with a > public key, etc. > > It should be possible with a simple script. I used to have one that > did everything but encryption, I don't know if I can dig it out (of > backups)... ;-)
This is so common, that although possible, I don't believe writing your own is the most cost-effective way for a backup system. Of course, YMMV. --y
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