On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:19:58PM +0200, Uwe Beger wrote: > All my important win boxes (actually only Win2K) do a standard M$ backup on > a samba share, which is backed up by amanda. > Advantages: immediate recovery possible > Disadv.: disk space
BackupPC (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/index.html) looks like a possible replacement for MS backup for the first phase of this scheme. It looks as though it could save a lot of disk space compared to MS backup, since it optimizes multiple identical copies of a file into a single copy on the backup disk. So for backing up a cluster of Windows boxes, you'd only need backup-disk space for one copy of Windows, not N. (Same principle could apply to other O/S's of course, and indeed BackupPC says it works on Linux too. Not sure about other Unices...) For the same reason, it'd also save huge amounts of tape. You wouldn't be plopping modified multi-gigabyte backup archives into your spool every night, most of whose contents were identical to the previous night's. As I say, it looks cool (and GPL too!) but I've never tried it. Does anyone here have any experience with it? (Well, someone must, since it got a mention in Jon's survey.) What do you think of it? -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / When I came back around from the dark side, there in front of me would be the landing area where the crew was, and the Earth, all in the view of my window. I couldn't help but think that there in front of me was all of humanity, except me. - Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot