----- Original Message ----
> From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wed, January 13, 2010 2:49:11 PM
> Subject: Re: Backup server
>
> Sorin Srbu wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf
> >> Of Barry Brimer
> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 2:15 PM
> >> To: CentOS mailing list
> >> Subject: Re: Backup server
> >>
> >> I use rsnapshot .. which manages sets of rsync backups using hardlinks.
> >> IT may be similar to what you are using already ..
> >
> > Somewhat similar, thanks. I think however I need to get away from this sort
> > of backups. They're just to space-consuming.
>
> Between compression and pooling, I get about 10x the raw data being archived
> with backuppc - it beats juggling tapes and you can let the users access the
> backups of their own machine through a web interface. There are some down sides
>
> to plan around though: the compression takes some CPU and is slower than a stock
>
> rsync run, and the pooling is done with hardlinks which forces the archive to be
>
> on a single filesystem and makes it hard to duplicate for offsite copies.
> There's an RPM in epel that is easy to install on Centos.
One thing that made me not use BackupPC was that (from the doc):
"The advantage of the mod_perl setup is that no setuid script is needed,
and there is a huge performance advantage.... The
typical speedup is around 15 times.
To use mod_perl you need to run Apache as user __BACKUPPCUSER__.
If you need to run multiple Apache's for different services then
you need to create multiple top-level Apache directories, each
with their own config file. You can make copies of /etc/init.d/httpd
and use the -d option to httpd to point each http to a different
top-level directory. Or you can use the -f option to explicitly
point to the config file. Multiple Apache's will run on different
Ports (eg: 80 is standard, 8080 is a typical alternative port accessed
via http://yourhost.com:8080)."
Since I don't have a dedicated backup server, I did not want to mess up the existing apache configurations...
JD
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