>>>>> "John" == John Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> [...] and hand crafted scripts that use John> ftp or rsync to backup or something. The biggest problem with John> these, is that the interface sucks too. On top of that, they John> generally aren't very accountable. A lot of times it can be John> hard to tell if a backup was good or not. It's even worse if John> you're trying to backup a windows client to a linux server. I did a PLUG AT talk on disk-to-disk backup solutions a few years ago. Personally, I just use a naked rsync using the --link-dest, but in preparing the talk I also looked at two others: rdiff-backup and BackupPC. Each uses a different storage mechanism. rdiff-backup made me nervous because it stores deltas and any delta failure blows away the rest of the history. BackupPC was especially well suited for networks of nearly identical installs, as the identical content was stored in common and metadata was stored separately. It had a web intererface that allowed users to recover files themselves. It backs up windows or linux. The rsync --link-dest method is cool, particularly on a Samba server because you can export the backup trees read-only and let users do self-recovery of older snapshots. Through the magic of hardlinks, I had about 100 snapshots of a 10 gig workset on a 30 gig HD. All three of these can use rsync as a network transport. -- Russell Senior ``I have nine fingers; you have ten.'' [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PDXLUG (a Portland Linux user group) mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug & #orlug
