Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 23:00:47 +0000 on Thursday, March 10, 2011:
 > On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 20:10 +0100, Cesar Kawar wrote:
 > > El 10/03/2011, a las 19:55, Michael Conner escribió:
 > > > One additional question: are there any advantages to any particular 
 > > > flavor of Linux for BPC?
 > 
 > > I prefer Debian, all BackupPC installations I've done I've used Debian and 
 > > never had a problem, plus, apt is the most robust package manager I've 
 > > ever used.
 > 
 > I prefer Ubuntu. However, it is based on Debian, and of course also uses
 > APT. Cesar is right; APT is so awesome it hurts.
 > 
 > If you do use Debian, use a stable release. If you use Ubuntu, use an
 > LTS release. Generally stick to defaults and don't get obsessed about
 > one filesystem over another. You want your backup system to be stable,
 > reliable, and long-lived.
 > 
 > Installation of BackupPC is one command:
 > 
 > apt-get install backuppc

Alternatively, in Fedora world, the single command:
        yum install BackupPC
(and 4 fewer keystrokes!)
In all seriousness, I find yum/rpm equally powerful to apt/dpkg but
more flexible and easier to create/modify my own packages.

But this shouldn't be a linux distro competition - rather, the point
is that BackupPC installs with equal ease and works equally well on
just about any popular distro. Just use whatever distro you are most
comfortable with.

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