[K12OSN] BackupPC

[Huck]

Ah, you too Mark?
I've just found the 'unstable' repositories for the debian system I 
setup yesterday so am 'apt-get install backuppc' as I type...
I do find the documentation rather daunting on setting up host and 
clients...
Any chance you could wiki your work? I'll be logging my activities as 
well... hopefully we can reduce the fear the documentation instills.

--Huck

Mark Cockrell wrote:

> Just a quick advertisement for BackupPC.  After Les Mikesell's 
> frequent recommendations of BackupPC, I decided to give it a try.  For 
> anyone else out there who might have been saying "Hmm, I may look into 
> that some day.", do it now!  It's an amazingly effective and simple 
> product.  I'm seriously considering chunking my $4000+ HP tape system 
> now.  For half of that I put together a big, fat RAID array and am now 
> getting over 10 times the storage capacity (thanks partly to 
> BackupPC's pooling system), and it's much faster to boot.  I can't say 
> enough good things about it.