I am looking for workstation/laptop backup solution for our
organization with many offices. My idea is that I'll set up
separate box in every office and that box would backup
workstations and laptops originating from that office.
We are already using Bacula for our servers backups and with that
I have extensive experience, but unfortunately the
laptop/roadwarrior support in there is quite limited.
I've done some research on several aspects of BackupPC, but before
digging very deep into actual testing, I'd like to confirm my
moving direction with you all :)
Here are my questions:
- If we will start testing BackupPC, shall we start with 4.0 (even
though it's alpha), so that we wouldn't have any migration pains
afterwards?
- Does 4.0 have client-side deduplication? From documentation it
seems that "
The use of rsync --checksum allows BackupPC to guess a potential
match anywhere in the pool, even on a first-time backup" could
mean that?
- I see using rsync on Windows as the most reasonable option:
-- Is there still no BackupPC client for Windows?
-- Would
http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/ work with 4.0? How
"official" is that client?
-- It seems that rsync on Windows is easiest to use through
DeltaCopy, especially for many clients. Am I on correct track on
this?
-- The only possibility to encrypt files on client is through
Rsyncrypto? I guess this very much eliminates deduplication, but
for individual users/folders it's not a problem. Any other limits
that will become relevant with Rsyncrypto?
I'm very grateful for any feedback on these points.
Thanks in advance!
--
Silver
