Im a user of BackupPC from way back (2005-ish). Love the product (thanks Craig!!) and Im looking forward to hearing any experiences with 4.0 Ive got a couple sites with about 10-15 Macintosh machines
I haven't had any problems with backing up OSX clients via rsync over SSH. But then again, I only back up home directories, the largest being around 150GB. Perhaps you need more memory in your BPC s
Author: Ray Frush <ray.frush AT avagotech DOT com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 12:57:30 -0700
Like Kris, we back up a number of MacBooks here using rsync via ssh, and have never had an issue. Also like Kris, we only backup /Users which limits what we're backing up. Ray Frush "
Thanks Ray and Kris for the advice. I checked and found Ive got 3GB of memory in my BackupPC Server, so it seems that it should be sufficient. What user context does BackupPC connect to the machine u
Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 08:45:23 -0600
I enable the root user and back them up just like any [other] *nix system. I only bother excluding temporary files, and I've never had a problem. -- Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and displ
Author: Ray Frush <ray.frush AT avagotech DOT com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 08:30:13 -0700
Here's some notes from our internal Wiki for enabling BackupPC. With this method, there's no reason that you couldn't backup the entire system. Enable ssh access System Preferences/Sharing Che
How well does BackupPC do with backing up Macs? All of the Macs are OS 10 or higher, which is just a variant of BSD. Has anyone done this? We just bought a small company in another office that could
Author: Michael Barrow <michael AT michaelbarrow DOT name>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:40:01 -0800
How well does BackupPC do with backing up Macs? All of the Macs are OS 10 or higher, which is just a variant of BSD. Has anyone done this? We just bought a small company in another office that cou
Author: Ski Kacoroski <kacoroski AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:39:35 -0800
Chris, It works great for macs. I backup over 1500 workstations (about 8TB of data total) to 10 backuppc servers and get about a 50% reduction in data. The one trick is to use xtar on the macs to be
I find in my setup the Macs are backed up very slowly compared to the other Linux systems. It's so bad that there must be something I can change. I'm using rsync over ssh all around. Incremantals of
hi, I am currently doing 5 Macs using rsync over ssh and not having any major issues. I do only backup /Users and not the complete system. I find BackupPC very convenient to use compared to EMC Netwo
I do not what resource forks are. We do not have a Mac server and ultimately do not want one. Chris Baker -- cbaker AT intera DOT com systems administrator INTERA -- 512-425-2006 From: Michael Barrow
Author: Ski Kacoroski <kacoroski AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:57:15 -0800
Chris, Resource forks are where the Mac OS stores key information about a file. For example if a word file does not have an extension such as .doc, then then Mac looks in the resource fork to figure