BackupPC
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Mar 29 01:52:01 UTC 2008
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> Backuppc is a perl script (or a few) and not at all hard to install on
>> CentOS. The storage philosophy is a bit different between the two.
>> Backuppc will hardlink and eliminate duplicate copies of files across
>> target machines but a small change in a big file makes another complete
>> (compressed) copy. Rdiff-backup will only match duplicates with
>> previous copies from the same place but small changes in big files are
>> saved as differences.
>
> So which do you prefer?
> It sounds to me as though BackupPC might be a little safer?
>
> Re installation under CentOS, having just acquired a Dell PowerEdge T105
> (very cheaply) as server, I've decided only to do what Dell tells me I can.
> I do use the Epel Fedora-like repository,
> so hopefully BackupPC will get in that fairly soon.
I can't imagine Dell telling you that you can't install a perl script.
I use/like backuppc but the advantages are mostly for backing up several
systems. If you only have one or two machines to back up they are both
good.
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Les Mikesell
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