[CentOS] Encrypted remote backup?

Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajsand at gmail.com
Sun Aug 8 19:14:10 UTC 2010


Greetings,

On 8/8/10, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a commercial off site remote backup service with a
> client (preferably FOSS) for CentOS 5, preferably that allows encryption
> of the data being backed up?
>
> Small scale, I'm primarily looking to just back up my mail folder on my
> server.
>
> I've been backing it up to local hd via rsync but that drive just died,
> I'd prefer to have it backed up to somewhere more stable than a home box
> and automated via cron (cli tools a must), but encryption is important,
> people are snoopy and I'm paranoid about that sort of stuff.


Dunno how http://nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ will work for you.

Comments solicited from esteemed members. Of course Amanda, Bacula are
there in the conventional DR model.

Never had an opportunity/resources to try it though.

But all the same, looks impressive:

http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/examples.html

Regards

Rajagopal



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