LOL


On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 17:41 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> 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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