Quoting andy at theasis.com (andy at theasis.com): > > What we have done is setup ssh in a very restricted fashion to ssh to the > > DMZ, and tar the contents of the web server across the ssh tunnel to a local box > > that is then backed up on the private network. > > This is what rsync is for. > > > This works well for a medium amount of data and is very secure. > > rsync works pretty well for a large amount of data, since it only moves > changes. If you want snapshots of each backup, that can be handled on the > backup server. rsync using ssh as the transport correct? In our particular application we are copying everything everytime so I did not think rsync would make a difference, so I just went with ssh. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9