Backuppc is better solutions? Anyone similar software for this problem ?
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/10/11 1:20 AM, Railic Njegos wrote:
>> I plan to use copy as backup, because second server will be old
>> physical computer(about 2TB disk)
>> in remote office and first server will be virtual machine on storage.
>> On first server i plan to
>> have one folder where i plan to copy over rsync all files from second server.
>
> That plan will work, but it won't protect against things like accidental
> deletions or overwriting important files that aren't noticed until after the
> next rsync run wipes out your copy. Backuppc or a similar backup framework can
> keep a history of copies online and cover both scenarios. Backuppc is
> particularly nice in that it's compression and pooling makes it not use a lot of
> space for the history and it provides a web interface for browsing the backups
> and restoring - and you can download files directly from the browser if you
> want. 2TB is a lot to copy remotely, though. You may want to use some other
> means to get the initial copy over - like copying to an external drive. Once the
> first copy is in place rsync will only need to copy the changes.
>
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