On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 05:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Second, you didn't say that backing up the clients would annoy the users. > > Now it's an issue? > YES and this is a big YES: Why? because user never want backup (privately or > at work). and there are many reasons for that. Privately, they never have > time to do so, at work, backups means that they can be spyed. More over, when > a backup occure, the disk activity is heavy and thus starting applications is > significantly slowed. As a full backup can last upt to 1 hour, it's time > consuming in their daily work. As it's their responsibility to accept being > backed-up, they accept this drawback, but doubling backups will double that > problem, and it's not acceptable.
The real solution here is to make sure the users save all their work on a server instead of their desktops and run the backups of the server during off hours. That's not always possible, especially for laptops. One approach that might work for you at the expense of some disk space (which is pretty cheap these days) is to do a scripted rsync from the desktops to a uncompressed copy on a local server. You can give the user a read-only share via samba so they can quickly grab a copy of yesterday's file if you want. Then let one or both of your backuppc servers back up the server copy which will be compressed and linked efficiently for the older versions at least. I do something similar to this in some remote offices so one copy is available locally and I can let backuppc use rsync over ssh which doesn't work well directly to a windows box. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
