Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>>> Instead of running backuppc locally to your source data, just
>>> have one machine that has copy of everything.
>> Look into tools like rsnapshot or rdiff-backup. It sounds like the
>> problem that Mr. Powell is running into is that backuppc hardlinks
>> files together; and AFAIK neither of those other tools do. Both
>> would do what Mr. Mikesell suggests.
>
> I like backuppc's ability to cleanly backup and restore to non-UNIX
> operating systems. :)
Backuppc uses standard tools for the actual backup/restore operations.
You can use rsync/tar/smbtar just as well yourself in a simple
scheduled/scripted operation to maintain a local uncompressed,
unencrypted snapshot copy that your remote backuppc can back up.
--
Les Mikesell
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