On 09/06 03:49 , Ski Kacoroski wrote:
> I am giving a tutorial on BackupPC at LISA this year
> (http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa09/) and would love to hear from folks
> about things they would like to learn if they took a BackupPC class.  I
> am particularly interested in things that caused an "Ah that is how it
> works" moment when you were first figuring out BackupPC.  I will add a
> page to the wiki with a summary of repsonses.
> 
> I look forward to hearing from you.  

some noteworthy 'aha!' things:

- config.pl explains 90% of what you need to know about backuppc. Just read
  the comments in that file end-to-end.
- in order to make the example localhost.pl file (in debian's distribution)
  work properly and back up *all* the files on the local machine with tar,
  you need to add a 'sudo' in there.
- remember to turn on compression when backing up over slow links
- different ssh ciphers can make a difference in transfer speed. Experiment
  with arcfour and blowfish.

Good luck on your LISA presentation

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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