Re: [PLUG] Backup packages

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 21:48:50 -0400
> From: Paul L. Snyder <plsnyder@drexel.edu>
> Subject: [PLUG] Backup packages
>
> I'm finally getting around to setting up a backup system for all the
> various machines around my house.  Any recommendations as to a good
> package to use?

<snip>

Third vote for http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/.

I've found it to be great for Linux, though I've had issues with 
Windows, which may well be user error.  I haven't spent much time on the 
Windows side; I have a very specific idea of what I want to do and 
haven't been able to do it.  I'm ultimately going to solve that by 
running all instances of Windows under VMware Server on Linux (using 
Ubuntu for that now), then just back up the entire VM on the Linux side. 
 I'll probably try to figure out how to script a VM snapshot first, 
and/or use LVM snapshots.

The Linux side Just Works, though I find the configs a bit tedious. 
Debian (Sarge, Etch) packages is a bit old at 2.x (but are what I'm 
using), the latest is the 3.x series which makes editing config files a 
bit easier IIRC.  The client configs are supposed go in the backuppc 
dir, but I put them under /etc/backuppc and symlinked them into 
/opt/backuppc.

As someone else noted, even partial backups look like full ones, which 
makes restores very handy.  The pooling and compression are nice too.

Later,
JP
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