Hello, I'm looking on how to use BackupPC in order to backup a bunch of Windows installations and some Mac too. This is not my main concern as after reading the documentation, I think that BackupPC is well suited for that.
My main problem is that I also have some external servers (spread over the Internet) to backup. In that case using as less as bandwidth as possible can be useful. As I understood, BackupPC downloads all the data and do deduplication on the server side. A tool doing dedpulication on the client side would be better to preserve bandwidth. bup [1] would be a good solution but it may be too young and here is coming BURP [2]. Even if it doesn't support client side deduplication, it has a delta differencing functionality. So here is my idea: 1. BURP collecting external servers data (BURP server is in a DMZ). 2. BackupPC retrieve data from BURP server (local network). Question: I don't want to backup backups and have incremental backup of incremental backups. This will make restoration harder. What is the best way to get those files? Forget BackupPC and use rsync? Use BackupPC and disable incremental backups? Any advises are welcome. Thanks! [1]: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/rlb/bup.git [2]: http://burp.grke.net Jimmy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
