I've been looking around for a new backup solution, and so far, backuppc looks like the best fit. However, after running through the install options, there were a lot of config choices designed to remove old full backup and old incremental backups. So I'm not so sure if this matches my needs anymore.
Basically, I am looking at building a backup server with around 1.6TB of storage space available, and using that to backup a single Linux server (well, actually two linux boxes) as a single full backup on day 0 and then making incremental backups daily for ever after that. This way, we can grab any version of any file since the original full backup. Can backuppc achieve this?? Would it just be a matter of setting the various configs for deleting old backups to very large numbers, (or perhaps negative numbers?)? Based on our calculations, we are hoping the above will be sufficient to backup all data for at least 5 years, with the original estimate at around 22 years. We factored in some allowance for data requirements to expand, and hence brought it back to 5 years). The idea is also that in 5 years we can just pull out the old HDD's and replace them with the then current size HDD which will probably be something like 2 - 5TB per drive... Finally, we would like to take the latest 'merged' snapshot every month and burn that to DVD storage. Any comments or suggestions on the above would be much appreciated. Happy to share info/etc after implementation if people are interested as well... PS, hardware is: Single CPU AMD64 machine 6 x 400GB SATA HDD's with 5 in RAID5 config + one hot spare 1 x Adaptec PCI SATA card for extra 2 drives 2 x 80GB IDE HDD's for OS in RAID1 mirror 1GB RAM DDR Running Debian Stable Linux with BackupPC Server's being backed up are fileserver running samba and a mail/web server running qmail/apache/mysql/etc Regards, Adam _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
