Thanks for the replies.
I should have stated I'm after something I can understand at a block level.
There are only a few datapoints I care about:
* the /etc from a few internal and external OpenBSD machines.
* a few other *conf* areas like /var/named and so on from external machines.
* either /var/www/virtuals from an external machine or from the
Windows machine they were built on.
* some personal data from the Windows machine.
All that stuff changes little (especially the OpenBSD machines).
If I lose a day or so from the Windows machine that's fine.
So simple is good.
I've read through the ideas and something like dump looks suitable.
dump - filesystem backup
-f file
Write the backup to file; file may be ...
... an ordinary
file ...
This suggests I can mount a remote partition via NFS and dump to a file there.
Is this correct?
Can I do this via SSH also?
The only other question mark is doing something similar for the
internal Windows machine.
I could do this manually via ftp but I suspect that will result in it
happening far too little.
As far as I understand it, Microsoft supply an NFS client via the
resource kit and it looks easy to "at" and script as long as it's
interoperable and Microsoft read the RFCs ...
Best wishes.
