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Morning,
I have just started
to play with backuppc and am making good strides - local (SMB) backups are
working fine and I am just about to have a look at rsync-based backups from a
couple of local Linux servers before moving on to SMB/rsync via SSH and some
VPNs.
I am diligently
RTFM-ing, supplemented with the stuff found via Google - which is a bit
overwhelming, so I'd appreciate some short cuts from anyone with a bit more
real-world experience if possible:
1) I presume(?)
SMB-based backups cannot do block-difference-level copies like rsync? We have a
number of remote (over VPN) Windows servers and I'd like to backup their MSSQL
database dumps - they are around 700MB at the moment and I presume via SMB the
whole lot will get transferred every time?
2) I have seen a
number of guides for cwrsync on Windows-based PCs. Any votes on the best one and
the best place to read up on this? I presume that since we'd be backing up via
VPN, we could run rsync directly rather than via an SSH
tunnel?
3) As the remote
sites are linked via VPN, I could mount the remote shares to the local backup
server and use rsync 'directly' - any pros/cons doing things this way (speed,
reliability etc?), or is an rsync server on the remote servers a better
approach?
4) I am running the
backup server on CentOS 5.3 and installed backuppc from the Centos RPM. Ideally
I'd like to run the app as the normal 'apache' user - I read up on a few generic
notes about doing this and got to a point where backuppc wouldn't start properly
as it couldn't create the LOG file. I then went round in circles looking at file
permissions before putting things back the way they were in order to do some
more learning. Is there a simple-to-follow guide for setting up backuppc to not
use mod_perl - I have read the docs but am still not getting
there.
Many
thanks
Nigel Kendrick
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