<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I use RSYNC at work also, we've got a VPN set up between site locations and use rsync to move data between them. We also use rsync internally between windows and linux boxes .. when you get the data to your home server you might want to consider what you do with that box backup-wise too.<DIV>I've been looking at encrypted filesystems for secure storage at home and work - the other network engineer at my work managed to build his own encrypted filesystem linux on a USB stick which works very nicely.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you can get away with it bandwidth-wise encrypt your VPN as highly as you can, I wouldn't transfer client data over anything less than 256bit, but maybe I'm just a little paranoid!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Rick<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 26 Sep 2007, at 23:39, Brian Ronald wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 20:47 +0100, Scott Wilcox wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Has anyone done anything like this or similar, and if so how did you</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">manage to do it, and is it successful?</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">At work I back up many Windows and Linux servers using rsync, which can</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">be tunnelled over ssh for backing up across untrusted networks.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>There</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">are a bunch of pre-rolled packages that use this protocol.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I rolled my</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">own, but a quick web search will show more.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It's fast and effective.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Nelug mailing list <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>- <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="mailto:Nelug@mailman.lug.org.uk">Nelug@mailman.lug.org.uk</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nelug">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nelug</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.nelug.org.uk">http://www.nelug.org.uk</A>/</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Rick Trotter</DIV><DIV>CTO TeesCode</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:rick.trotter@teescode.co.uk">rick.trotter@teescode.co.uk</A></DIV><DIV>www.teescode.co.uk</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>