Author: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT theingots DOT org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 19:53:32 +0200
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 har
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 13:48:04 -0500
Yes, when using rsync as the xfer method, 'full' backups do the block checksum comparison on everything while 'incremental' runs skip files where the timestamp and length match the base copy (normall
Author: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT theingots DOT org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 21:19:47 +0200
Hi Les, Thanks for the help. Comments below. Would it be difficult to add this feature? I imagine that I'm not the first person to try to use an external disk as a backup medium. But it is the nature
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 15:44:45 -0400
Daniel Carrera wrote at about 19:53:32 +0200 on Friday, May 22, 2009: Not sure if you yet realize this, but BackupPC actually does more than just hard links and compression. Specifically, 1. It has t
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 14:48:20 -0500
I suspect that most people using an external disk use more than one and leave one connected most of the time. Part of the value is the web interface that permits restores from the other computer(s) a
Author: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT theingots DOT org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 21:57:23 +0200
Yeah. I didn't mention this (and other features) because it didn't seem relevant to me. I only have two computers to backup and I'm only backing up the home directories, so there aren't almost any fi
Author: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT theingots DOT org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 22:15:08 +0200
I can't see myself ever doing that. I don't know why I would ever need two external disks. On my system the disk always reliably mounts on /media/Daniel. You just need to give the partition a label (
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 15:13:58 -0500
The web browser interface presents the incremental runs as though they were complete. It is an unnecessary disk head seek - and matters if your server is busy. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell AT gmail DO
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:17:06 -0400
Daniel Carrera wrote at about 21:19:47 +0200 on Friday, May 22, 2009: Couple of comments and suggestions: 1. This code probably needs to occur several places in the main 'while' loop in /usr/share/Ba
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:21:31 -0400
Daniel Carrera wrote at about 21:57:23 +0200 on Friday, May 22, 2009: And if you are doing daily backups of a lot of stuff then you can run out of inodes. In fact, even for BackupPC, people have run
Author: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT theingots DOT org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 22:42:19 +0200
It is really hard to find a backup solution at the right level for me. Everything is either "home user" which means it can only backup one PC or "enterprise" which is a code-word for "complex". The b
but backuppc is convenient - okay, I have to admit that I use it to backup my ~25 servers so I'm maybe not really unbiased in my opinions regarding decent backup solutions. but anyway: I have an old
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 15:46:52 -0500
The reason for backing things up is that things go wrong. Things can go wrong that destroy everything in the same location. If you don't have at least 2, the backup copy is going to be in the same lo
Author: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT theingots DOT org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 22:53:53 +0200
I didn't think of NFS volumes. That's another very good reason why one might want to check if a directory is available. Here is one slight variation: Reuse DumpPreUserCmd. If the command returns 0, p
Author: Les Mikesell <les AT futuresource DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 15:58:02 -0500
It's hard to reconcile a good backup server with hardware that isn't 100% available. Have you considered using a 3rd box for the backup operation so it can run all the time if you consider a start/st
Author: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT theingots DOT org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:02:57 +0200
I was planning to use a remote server for that (just get a hosting account with cheap disk space, or use Amazon S3 or similar). ??? I might have misunderstood something. Don't I just set $Conf{topDir
That was my thought... sbackup takes a matter of minutes to set up. I'm having that debate with myself over 5 computers. -- Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a
It's that initial setup / learning curve... If was past that I'd be setting up BackupPC on the toaster oven. -- Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of
Author: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT theingots DOT org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:14:19 +0200
I would consider that in the future, but right now I want to save my pennies, as I will have some significant expenses in the near future. Daniel. -- Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT),
excellent point. I started with some backuppc 2.x and my current 3.x is _really_ user friedly and easy going. but if I try to imagine what would happen when I just looked for a simple backup solutio