Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob questions
2009-05-22 15:48:59
Daniel Carrera wrote at about 19:53:32 +0200 on Friday, May 22, 2009:
> Hello,
>
> I just started taking a look at BackupPC. It looks really good.
>
> I'm looking for a backup solution for a home network (two Linux PCs). My
> current solution is a simple script using rsync and hard links to create
> the appearance of daily backups. What got my attention about BackupPC is
> that it seems to do roughly the same thing, but with some extra features
> like compression. So now I have a few questions:
>
Not sure if you yet realize this, but BackupPC actually does
more than just hard links and compression. Specifically,
1. It has the notion of a "pool" so that common files between multiply
backed up computers are only copied once. When you have multiple
Windows and/or Linux computers, this saves a lot of backup space.
2. Incrementals only contain hard links for new files vs. your system
where every day you create a new hard link for every single
file.
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