Re: [BackupPC-users] Distro choice

Hello:
One thing that needs to be considered is the number of machines and the amount of data to be backed up. The robustness of the file system then becomes and issue, as pointed out earlier. This to me seems like the biggest artifact to consider.

From the perspective of 'working out of the box' and administration, I found Debian 5 to be very easy to install/troubleshoot and package management is easy. Getting and installing backuppc was easy and trouble free. Plus, a large userbase ensures good forum activity, so looking for and finding information is greatly enhanced - not to mention, IMHO, the existing documentation and how-tos are pretty good.

I run Debian on a 1GHZ workstation with 512KB and, to be honest, it is pretty snappy. If the machine is used primarly as a backup server the performance limiting factor is generally network bandwidth, unless sw compression is done.

Pet peve: One issue that I have found quite annoying is that the Debian/Ubuntu branches have their own structure of where to put applications and utilities in the file structure. I came from a Bell Labs/ATT/BDS UNIX background and have used Slackware extensively in the past. For me, that was the 'standard' and routing around the guts of Debian and finding out (and still learning) were system files, application files etc are located has been a little frustrating. So was the concept of sudo in Ubuntu (Why is there no easily identifiable root state (e.g. root terminal)...At least Debian will launch a root terminal ....So, I guess it just depends what one is accustom to......

-John

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Huw Wyn Jones <huw.jones AT meirion-dwyfor.ac DOT uk> wrote:

Me again! :-)

Is there much difference between Linux distros when it comes to building a new Backuppc server from scratch? I'm thinking of going for either CentOS or Debian but I was curious if anyone had any comments or insight on the matter.

TIA

Huw

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Coleg Meirion Dwyfor

huw.jones AT meirion-dwyfor.ac DOT uk

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