bentman78
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Arlington, VA
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July 12th, @01:25PM
| Off-site file storage
I am going to colo a server with a couple of 300 or 400 gig drives to use for off-site file storage. It is going to be used for file storage only.
Since a run FreeBSD file server, I plan on using FreeBSD remotely to store and pretty much have a sync of files that reside on the primary. I figure rsync would be the best way of doing this since it will only do incremental and I have a monthly cap on bandwidth.
Would rsync be the best to use or should I just tar the files?
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orion940
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| I think rsync is much better for a couple reasons. Once you get the first rsync done, then you are basically doing just incrementals. It's a much shorter window and much less resource consumption (CPU).
Compressing that much data takes a bunch of CPU and a lot of time.
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bentman78
Bentley
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Arlington, VA
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July 12th, @02:01PM
| cool, that's what I'll use.
My next question is would anyone like some space? I want to alleviate some of the cost and I guess I'll sell some disk space and grant a shell account so users can store files via SFTP or use rsync over ssh to backup some stuff. I figure grant a home directory and let users write to that.
I'm am thinking about using OpenBSD and defining login classes so I can restrict what commands people can do. I'll be cheap and grant a significant amount of space.
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@lodgenet.net | You might want to look into duplicity, which is rsync with gnupg encryption:
»duplicity.nongnu.org/
I haven't used it myself, but I've heard good things about it from people who have. |
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bentman78
Bentley
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Arlington, VA | cool...I'll look into it. Thanks! |
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