There is surprisingly little info on how BackupPC really works, at least with the google searches I've tried. I'm just looking for a concise overview of how the different backup methods work and how they are different from one another.
The reason I'm looking for this information is I will be giving a presentation of BackupPC to my local LUG. I'm looking for something as close as I can get to: Rsync: 1. BackupPC does x. 2. Then this. 3. Then this. 4. etc. Rsyncd: 1. Same as rsync except x. Tar: ... Smb: ... and so forth. For instance: I can understand how tar over SSH transfers files. But who decides what files to transfer? Does BackupPC crawl the share first and build a filelist? Or is there an option for tar that takes care of if for BackupPC? For SMB I understand that it would just look like a local filesystem after the share is mapped to the BackupPC server. Then what? Does it use rsync against the network share? Thanks, Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
