[Tfug] Linux backup

[christopher floess]

On 04/19/2010 08:56 PM, Jeff Coy wrote:
> What distribution are you using that backuppc doesn't work with?
Arch linux.

>
> I've been using it for quite a while on a cheap external box with 
> nothing but a RAID1 setup and have been very happy with it.  The only 
> reason I didn't suggest it here is it feels more like a backup system 
> for a bunch of boxes, not a single desktop user.
At first glance I noticed this too, but in my experience, when something 
works well for a bunch of boxes, it usually works for a single box just 
as well.

>
> But you might want to consider just sticking Debian on an external box 
> and letting it run backuppc.  All you need is a network card & a fair 
> sized hard drive (preferably 2 mirrored, but a poor backup is better 
> than no backup).
touché. The ONLY problem here, is that this is a sort of complex 
solution in the sense that it takes an extra box. I don't have one yet. 
Once I get more time, I will look for one, but at that point I'll have 
the time to really look into things like backuppc

>
> The real benefit of backuppc is that it just works, notifications to 
> different users for different machines, and the nightly pruning of 
> matching files.  Here at work I'm backing up about 30 Linux & various 
> windows boxes all onto one box and only really using around 400GB.  
> The biggest down side I see is a lack of ACLs, but where I'm using it 
> I either trust the users or have to do it for them anyway.
Access Control Lists? That's a guess. Google didn't cough something up 
in the first five hits, but the nice thing about this list is that it's 
easy to throw things out there and watch the "learning curve" shrink as 
everyone throws out the usage options for everything that I felt would 
be too time consuming to learn.

Thanks for that.

-- Chris