Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-13 Thread Kurt Granroth
Alex Dean wrote: I need backup software for a home network. Mix of Linux and OSX machines. Will be using an external HDD for backup media. The backup server will run on one of the OSX machines, since it's the only non-laptop I have. I'm mainly looking for something that's easy to

Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-13 Thread der.hans
Am 12. Jul, 2008 schwätzte Alex Dean so: I need backup software for a home network. Mix of Linux and OSX machines. Will be using an external HDD for backup media. The backup server will run on one of the OSX machines, since it's the only non-laptop I have. I'm mainly looking for something

Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-13 Thread der.hans
Am 12. Jul, 2008 schwätzte Matrix Mole so: I like the rsync option for backup purposes. I'm not sure if it'll BackupPC will use rsync. Bakula can probably use it as well. work for your setup. I've been using it to keep my web servers safe and stored on my local network from their remote

Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-13 Thread der.hans
Am 12. Jul, 2008 schwätzte Joseph Sinclair so: I ended up using DAR for a backup I needed to do to a 500G USB drive. It took roughly 28 hours (USB isn't a very good filesystem interface, especially for 400G of backup data...), but it worked fairly well. My USB connected drive seems to get

Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-13 Thread Mike Bydalek
Alex Dean wrote: I need backup software for a home network. Mix of Linux and OSX machines. Will be using an external HDD for backup media. The backup server will run on one of the OSX machines, since it's the only non-laptop I have. I'm mainly looking for something that's easy to

Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-13 Thread Joseph Sinclair
der.hans wrote: Am 12. Jul, 2008 schw�tzte Joseph Sinclair so: I ended up using DAR for a backup I needed to do to a 500G USB drive. It took roughly 28 hours (USB isn't a very good filesystem interface, especially for 400G of backup data...), but it worked fairly well. My USB connected

backup software recommendations?

2008-07-12 Thread Alex Dean
I need backup software for a home network. Mix of Linux and OSX machines. Will be using an external HDD for backup media. The backup server will run on one of the OSX machines, since it's the only non-laptop I have. I'm mainly looking for something that's easy to configure and has minimal

Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-12 Thread Matrix Mole
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Alex Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need backup software for a home network. Mix of Linux and OSX machines. Will be using an external HDD for backup media. The backup server will run on one of the OSX machines, since it's the only non-laptop I have. I'm

Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-12 Thread Alex Dean
Matrix Mole wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Alex Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need backup software for a home network. Mix of Linux and OSX machines. Will be using an external HDD for backup media. The backup server will run on one of the OSX machines, since it's the only

Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-12 Thread Michael March
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Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-12 Thread Joseph Sinclair
I ended up using DAR for a backup I needed to do to a 500G USB drive. It took roughly 28 hours (USB isn't a very good filesystem interface, especially for 400G of backup data...), but it worked fairly well. Below is the command I ran (from /, and after dropping the system into single user

Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-12 Thread koder
: Joseph Sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: backup software recommendations? Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:24:27 -0700 I ended up using DAR for a backup I