On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 8:30 AM, bruce <badouglas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hi.
looking to be able to backup a number of machines running fed (and
possibly other linux flavors)
I'm considering some sort of agent process, where the owner/user can
define the dirs that the owner wants backed up. This kind of approach
would allow us to be able to track when things get backed up, as well
as what's getting backed up.
The downside of this, we don't want to backup all of the OS tree, but
at the same time, if a dev has created apps that toss stuff into the
"OS" tree, it might not get backed up, unless specified...
I use BackuPC at home. It's clientless (uses the rsync on the host) but it's designed to be very automated. You can't tell it exactly when to backup, just a time window. You can specify how many full and incrementals you want to keep, what directories you want to include/exclude, and even do a tar (with or without compression) archives out to another disk/location. It is NOT designed for full system backup/restores and because of the dependence on rsync, it doesn't handle large files that change frequently as it has to transfer the whole file again. It does do deduplication so it's generally effective for home directories, especially where there is a large number of duplicate files between users.
Richard
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