remote-backup

What is the best remote backup provider?

What, in your opinion, is the single best provider for remote backups? The reason I ask, is that I have a lot of personal and business information which currently is only backed up to a server in the same building (my house) and I want to add a second reliable off-site backup. There are so many out there and I'm so confused on which to...

Offsite backup from a timemachine capsule

How can I create a (secondary) backup to a offsite location of a timemachine backup residing on a apple timecapsule? Possible destinations are Amazon S3, Mosso Cloud Files, Generic SSH/SCP servers, ... ...

AIX 4.3 - Backup entire system over the network?

I want to backup a AIX 4.3.2.0 machine to a network location. In the past, I've used dd/netcat to backup a system like linux. The server does not appear to NFS or netcat on it. I see that I should this command mksysb to complete backup rootvg -- but I don't have a tape for the tape drive. What are my options here? ...

Creating an Amazon EC2 Backup solution to Amazon S3

I currently use Amazon S3 as a backup location for my local machines - Primarily using JungleDisk to backup nightly all my local files to my S3 account. I have been looking at creating a more intelligent backup solution for remote files - Websites on Windows and Linux boxes, along with SQL Server and MySQL databases. I have been ponder...

Newby question: how could I write a program/script to automatically copy directories to a remote computer?

Firstly, I have the utmost respect for programmers & IT professionals. I'm a newby/wanna-be. I'm looking for help on developing a small program/script that helps me with the task I have detailed below. I am NOT submitting this as homework. This is work-related, but I'm NOT asking you to do my job. I'm taking this as an opportunity t...

Secure Sync between remote computers

I've been trying to find a tool that will Sync between two remote computers securely and also run as a service so I don't have to stay logged in. Windows Live sync seems to do the job although I've read it can't be run as a "service" reliably because it will occasionally log out of the service [http://www.dscoduc.com/post/2009/06/24/Don...

Need an encrypted online source code backup service.

Please note this is not a question about online/hosted SVN services. I am working on a home based, solo developer, project that now has commercial significance and it is time to think about remote source code backup. There is no need for file level check in/out, all I need is once a day or once a week directory level snapshot to remote ...

ssl encrypt large file using php for backup

I'm g-zipping and backing-up my database dump (using mysqldump ) to amazon S3 . all works fine, but i also need to encrypt this big-compressed file for securing the very- sensitive data within the database. please help, i'm really lost here . Thanks in advance :) ...

Multiple Website Backup

Does anyone know of a script or program that can be used for backing up multiple websites? Ideally, I would like the have it setup on a server where the backups will be stored. I would like to be able to add the website login info, and it connects and creates a zip file or similar that it would then be sent back to the remote server ...

Quick backup system for large projects

I've always backed up all my source codes into .zip files and put it in my usb drive and uploaded to my server somewhere else in the world.. however I only do this once every two weeks, because my project is a little big. Right now my project directories (I have a few of them) contains a hierarchy of c++ files in it, and interspersed wi...

Copying data from STDOUT to a remote machine using SFTP

In order to backup large database partitions to a remote machine using SFTP, I'd like to use the databases dump command and send it directly over using SFTP to a remote location. This is useful when needing to dump large data sets when you don't have enough local disk space to create the backup file, and then copy it to a remote locatio...

Ubuntu remote backup software like Windows Home Server

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop on a headless machine to act as a server and a laptop dual-booting W7 and Ubuntu 10.04. I have a network setup so I can vnc, ssh from the laptop to the server. My question is what is some good software to run on the server that can perform scheduled full backups of clients within the network. It should b...

Looking for a backup solution to back up partially a database and select folders from an online host

Hi guys, I wasnt sure where to post this but nevertheless I'm looking for a solution to take backups of partial databases i.e a select set of tables from a database like a SQL file and download it to a local disk on a periodic basis plus a solution with which I can download an archive of select folders from a web host - that too periodic...