I believe!  I just had to get some backups built and so installed
sbackup last night on the 3 critical machines, manually ran a full and
let it do an incremental in the wee hours.  I'm not sure much of
anything could be simpler, but... a few things a couple of you might
have a wee bit of trouble with... like open text userid:passwords in the
config file!  LOL.

I am hopeful that BackupPC / rsync can improve a bit on the backup of
the machine with the busy RAID10 array.  I think it took a bit over 3
hours to create a 15GB .ful (tar.gz) backup of that machine.  I may shut
down the machines hitting that array (it's a nfs share) and see how long
it runs with that quiesced.

I KNOW the pooling will pay off on that one because there's a bunch of
file duplication in the 12 OS copies.  Plus the non-raid OS drive is the
same basic distro also.

I'm swapping drives around now so that one of the 'crunchers' can have a
RAID 1 mirror by tomorrow.  Eventually that'll be the BackupPC target
drive.  I'm off most of next week so I'll have time to "try, curse and
smile" with BackupPC next week... fair warning ya'll, get ready for more
of the noob / idiot test questions ;-)

Skip


On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 23:31 +0200, Renke Brausse wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> "nobody wants backup, everyone demands restore" is imo possible with a
> configured backuppc :)
> 
> Renke
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