Thanks Ray and Kris for the advice. I checked and found Ive got 3GB of
memory in my BackupPC Server, so it seems that it should be sufficient.
What user context does BackupPC connect to the machine under in order to
get it to back up properly? Do you enable the root user on the Mac? Or do
Here's some notes from our internal Wiki for enabling BackupPC. With this
method, there's no reason that you couldn't backup the entire system.
Enable ssh access
System Preferences/Sharing
Check - Remote Login
Create and populate /var/root/.ssh/authorized_keys
Thanks Ray and Kris for the advice. I checked and found I’ve got 3GB of
memory in my BackupPC Server, so it seems that it should be sufficient.
What user context does BackupPC connect to the machine under in order to
get it to back up properly? Do you enable the root user on the Mac? Or do
you
I’m a user of BackupPC from way back (2005-ish). Love the product (thanks
Craig!!) and I”m looking forward to hearing any experiences with 4.0
I’ve got a couple sites with about 10-15 Macintosh machines (OS X 10.6,
10.7, 10.8, and 10.9) that I’m considering using BackupPC at. Does anybody
else
I haven't had any problems with backing up OSX clients via rsync over SSH.
But then again, I only back up home directories, the largest being around
150GB.
Perhaps you need more memory in your BPC server?
Kris Lou
k...@themusiclink.net
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Justin Best
Like Kris, we back up a number of MacBooks here using rsync via ssh, and
have never had an issue.
Also like Kris, we only backup /Users which limits what we're backing up.
Ray Frush Either you are part of the solution
T:970.288.6223 or part of the precipitate.
How well does BackupPC do with backing up Macs? All of the Macs are OS 10 or
higher, which is just a variant of BSD. Has anyone done this?
We just bought a small company in another office that could use a BackupPC
there. They have some Macs.
Chris Baker -- cba...@intera.com
systems
Chris,
It works great for macs. I backup over 1500 workstations (about 8TB of
data total) to 10 backuppc servers and get about a 50% reduction in
data. The one trick is to use xtar on the macs to be sure you get the
resource forks.
cheers,
ski
On 12/23/2009 10:54 AM, Chris Baker wrote:
I've used it to back up Macs. It works quite well. You need to be aware of
any files that might have resource forks because they won't be backed up
properly with the regular rsync client. Apple's client supports resource
forks, but as far as I know, it would have to go to an OS X server as well.
I find in my setup the Macs are backed up very slowly compared to the
other Linux systems. It's so bad that there must be something I can
change. I'm using rsync over ssh all around.
Incremantals of MacBooks Pro take 4-6 hours, compared to 20 minutes to
1 hour for the Linux systems,
hi,
I am currently doing 5 Macs using rsync over ssh and not having any
major issues. I do only backup /Users and not the complete system.
I find BackupPC very convenient to use compared to EMC Networker that we
used previously.
Mark
On 12/23/2009 1:54 PM, Chris Baker wrote:
How well does
To: General list for user discussion,questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up Macs
I've used it to back up Macs. It works quite well. You need to be aware of
any files that might have resource forks because they won't be backed up
properly with the regular rsync client. Apple's
and support
*Subject:* Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up Macs
I've used it to back up Macs. It works quite well. You need to be
aware of any files that might have resource forks because they won't
be backed up properly with the regular rsync client. Apple's client
supports resource
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