Re: [BackupPC-users] General Praise.

2010-10-15 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:55:41AM -0400, Dan Pritts wrote: I agree with your general praise, BackupPC works very well for us in our environment, which is maybe half your size. Due to your large size, I'll leave you with one thought: One concern I've always had with backuppc is what would

Re: [BackupPC-users] General Praise.

2010-10-15 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 23:20 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:55:41AM -0400, Dan Pritts wrote: One concern I've always had with backuppc is what would happen if i had a disaster and had to restore everything from backuppc. It would take absolutely forever to do

Re: [BackupPC-users] General Praise.

2010-10-15 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 08:57:52AM +0100, James Wells wrote: I find that BackupPC is good for general data retention, but bad for bare metal restores where you have to reinstall the OS first and then get data back on there. Fortunately, I have no need for that. :) -Robin --

Re: [BackupPC-users] General Praise.

2010-10-07 Thread Dan Pritts
I agree with your general praise, BackupPC works very well for us in our environment, which is maybe half your size. Due to your large size, I'll leave you with one thought: One concern I've always had with backuppc is what would happen if i had a disaster and had to restore everything from

Re: [BackupPC-users] General Praise.

2010-10-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On 10/7/2010 10:55 AM, Dan Pritts wrote: I agree with your general praise, BackupPC works very well for us in our environment, which is maybe half your size. Due to your large size, I'll leave you with one thought: One concern I've always had with backuppc is what would happen if i had a

Re: [BackupPC-users] General Praise.

2010-09-21 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 09:56:33PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: We've got 3 machines with 3.2T, 4.2T, and 851G of backups, all gathered via rsync over ssh *across the network between distant data centers* (the backups are in a totally different location than the servers), each server with

[BackupPC-users] General Praise.

2010-09-20 Thread Robin Lee Powell
We've got 3 machines with 3.2T, 4.2T, and 851G of backups, all gathered via rsync over ssh *across the network between distant data centers* (the backups are in a totally different location than the servers), each server with 150+ machines to backup every day... and it's actually working. I