[nycbug-talk] Setting up a FreeBSD "backup" box

[Dan Langille]

Matt Juszczak wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> If you were given the task of setting up a FreeBSD box with 1 TB disk 
> space (mirrored RAID 1) for use by multiple clients for backing up their 
> data (mostly via rsync and sftp), how would you set it up?  Yes, its a 
> given that one would use a minimalist install, create home dirs for each 
> client, enable quotas to keep file storage under control, but what else? 
> Is there a shell out there that ONLY allows the use of rsync and perhaps 
> sftp?  I've seen rbash and people also set the shell to sftp-server.
> 
> Just wondering how others would set this up.  Thanks!

As a contributor to the Bacula project, I'd install Bacula.

http://www.bacula.org/