Offsite backup software

nathan

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Hi there!!

Im after some backup software that will compress and encrypt my data then ftp it to my dads server. A big thing is that it needs to check for updated data and only upload that else it's gonna take ages each night.

Anyone have any ideas?

cheers!
 
In all honesty I can't say that i've seen any software capable of this. However, if it was me i'd do something like the following...

If Windows:

- Set up a VPN between you and your dads PC with some mediocre level of encryption.

- Map a drive to your dads server from your server.

If Linux:

- Set up a SSH server on your dads server.

- Connect to it using the SSH client on your server

For both:

- Use a program such as 7-zip to compress the data. 7-Zip command line tools can read what files you want to compress from a text file (so basically make a big text file with all the file paths that need to be backed up and then pass it to 7-Zip. Also tell 7-Zip to only compress files that have the "Archive" attribute set.

- Get 7-Zip to unmark the "archived" attribute on each of the files once it has been zipped. The archive attribute will automatically be set again if the file is modified.

- Get a script/batch file to move the zip file to the remote server. if its windows, it will be a simple case of telling it to move it to another drive, if its linux you'll need to look up the SSH SCP commands.

That, in a nutshell should do it. Only files that have been modified since last backup will be zipped and all data will go over a secure connection.
 
I use a program called Batchsync Secure to backup my web server to my file server. I don't know if it will compress, but it will backup via FTP and once it has done one full backup it will do incremental backups.
 
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