Re: [CentOS] NFS vs SMb vs iSCSI for remote backup mounts

On 1/28/2010 3:01 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:

Anytime someone mentions backups, I have a knee-jerk reaction to mention
backuppc because it is simple and will likely do anything you need.
  Docs are
here: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ It is packaged in epel.  It
can use rsync
  (with/without ssh), smb, or tar for the backup transport.
  Generally for
anything remote, you'll want rsync, and you'll want it badly enough
to set it up
even on windows targets - which is not all that difficult.

--
   Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@gmail.com <mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com>

Thank you Les, but I'm not looking for a new backup program. We rely on the platform's native backup scripts. I'm looking for recommendation for a fast, reliable & secure remote backup server platform

I don't understand what a 'remote backup server platform' is if it doesn't involve backup software. If you just want to present a file or device interface you can do that over a WAN with ordinary protocols but you won't like it. You could split the difference with a local (to the targets) file share where the native backups dump a copy, followed by remote rsync'ing of that copy to a central server where a longer history might be managed (or letting backuppc do that part for you).