[K12OSN] Backing up a server...best methods

[Shawn Powers]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Backuppc generally doesn't require anything to be installed on
> the clients other than setting up ssh keys if you run over

I gave backuppc an honest shake -- and I could not figure out the config 
files for setting up clients.  I can set up ssh pairs fine, but in the 
documentation, which decribes a multitude of configurable variables, I 
couldn't figure out how to simply do a tar backup of a remote /home 
directory, even with the ssh pairs set up.

I'm not a genius, but I did work for a good 45 minutes trying to figure 
out how to construct the client.pl file to get the right commands 
working.  I finally gave up, and I'm running rsync commands in a cron 
job again...

Are there example files anywhere other than the local /etc backup 
example included?

-Shawn


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