On 09/06 03:49 , Ski Kacoroski wrote: > I am giving a tutorial on BackupPC at LISA this year > (http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa09/) and would love to hear from folks > about things they would like to learn if they took a BackupPC class. I > am particularly interested in things that caused an "Ah that is how it > works" moment when you were first figuring out BackupPC. I will add a > page to the wiki with a summary of repsonses. > > I look forward to hearing from you.
some noteworthy 'aha!' things: - config.pl explains 90% of what you need to know about backuppc. Just read the comments in that file end-to-end. - in order to make the example localhost.pl file (in debian's distribution) work properly and back up *all* the files on the local machine with tar, you need to add a 'sudo' in there. - remember to turn on compression when backing up over slow links - different ssh ciphers can make a difference in transfer speed. Experiment with arcfour and blowfish. Good luck on your LISA presentation -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/