Renke Brausse wrote at about 23:31:09 +0200 on Friday, May 22, 2009:
 > > It's that initial setup / learning curve... If was past that I'd be
 > > setting up BackupPC on the toaster oven.
 > 
 > 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 solution for my private
 > needs BackupPC would be overkill. why should I invest time for something
 > like a stupid file copy application?
 > 
 > long story short: yes, backuppc is not simple - but a running instance
 > is like fire-and-forget. I just start my laptop and home and one to two
 > hours later everything is safe on the RAID of my backuppc server.

I spent weeks tweaking it for my setup (most of the time was spent
figuring out how to add NFS to my consumer NAS devices and figuring
out how to get full backups of Windoze machines). Since then, I just
glance at the occasional email reports.

In fact, it has become so "fire-and-forget" that part of me worries
what if it really is not doing what I think and hope it is... Maybe I
should check it out once in a while ;) 

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