OT: box.net backup

Josh Coffman josh at computeristsolutions.com
Tue Aug 5 17:57:04 MST 2008


On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 5:38 PM, George Toft <george at georgetoft.com> wrote:
> For Linux, I have a custom script that uses either NFS or SSH to rsync
> files to a remote server.  For Windows, I use Karen's Replicator
> (freeware - google for it), which works like rsync to a remote file
> server.  In my case, that remote server is a Linux box running ssh, nfs,
> and samba.
>
> The good: Easy to use; easy to set up; easy to restore; free.
>
> The bad: No point-in-time restores; no versioned backups.
>
> Cheers.
>
> George Toft, CISSP
>
>
>

I'm watching the Flyback project, which seems like a nice solution for
linux.  I probably need to find a different online storage place for
my box.net stuff so I can get a backup of it going.

http://flyback-project.org/


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