I find that BackupPC is good for general data retention, but bad for bare metal
restores where you have to reinstall the OS first and then get data back on
there. (ok, on linux you can essentially backup + restore the whole OS if you
want to).
It really depends though - if you have very fast links to your servers, it
wouldn't be such a hassle, I'm quite limited by being on 2mb ADSL here, doesn't
give great restore speeds.
My long term plan is to use something else for the bare metal recovery, and use
backuppc for easy restoration of files that users delete etc, as well as being
an emergency backup should the other method fail.
James Wells
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Lee Powell [mailto:rlpowell AT digitalkingdom DOT org]
Sent: 15 October 2010 07:20
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] General Praise.
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:55:41AM -0400, Dan Pritts wrote:
> I agree with your general praise, BackupPC works very well for us in
> our environment, which is maybe half your size. Due to your large
> size, I'll leave you with one thought:
>
> One concern I've always had with backuppc is what would happen if i
> had a disaster and had to restore everything from backuppc.
>
> It would take absolutely forever to do this, because backuppc has to
> seek the disks so much (due to the effects of all those hard links).
I don't know of anything that would be faster, though.
-Robin
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