On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/5/2013 7:31 AM, Joseph Hesse wrote:
>> My real home network consists of my wife's Windows computer and multiple
>> Linux desktops. I backup my computers using rsync. For the windows
>> computer I looked at Cygwin which has the rsync program but decided
>> instead to map a drive letter on her computer to a Samba share. She
>> then could use the Windows backup program and backup to the Samba
>> share. Afaik, the Windows backup program mirrors the selected files on
>> the backup device. She has no need of restoring files prior to a
>> certain date.
>
>
> *I* setup BackupPC at work for backing up a hetereogenous development
> server environment... this runs on a beefy linux box with a big disk
> farm, and 'pulls' the backups from the various target systems (a mix of
> Windows, Solaris, AIX, and Linux in my case). you can use a variety of
> different protocols for the backups, including rsync, nfs... for the
> several windows servers, I use a stripped down cygwin/rsync package,
> running in 'services' mode on the windows box, and pull the files via
> that. for my database servers, the backup runs a SQL script on the
> target that does a database dump, then it backs up that dump file rather
> than the raw datafiles.
>
> BackupPC does incremental backups that are totally deduplicated by the
> use of hard links, and compresses the individual files. I'm backing up
> something like 15 servers and VMs, and have daily incrementals going
> back a couple weeks, weeklies going back a couple months, and monthlies
> going back to May when I started, and the WHOLE thing is only using like
> 1.5TB of disk space. wow. I planned for up to 32TB, using a whole lot
> of 3TB drives in raid60, with XFS.
>
> BackupPC has a web interface so a user can browse their own backups and
> pull back a file or directory or what from any point in time.
Yes, I was going to recommend backuppc too. The de-dupe scheme lets
you keep a fairly long history on line without using a lot of disk
space. It can work directly with windows shares, but it is not that
much trouble to set up rsync.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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