Re: [SAGE] Backup for small development network

[Ski Kacoroski <kacoroski@gmail.com>]

I second this.  I use backuppc for my home network, for an online
service (Divinsa.com), and for backing up over 1500 mac workstations
(laptops and desktops) at my full time job with a school district.
Easy to set up and just plain works.  Only issue is it does not backup
to tape.  What people often do in this case is to set up a mirror and
break the mirror, take a disk offsite, then put a new disk into the
mirror.  Or, if you have enough bandwidth, run the backup to a machine
offsite like Divinsa.com does for their customers.

cheers,

ski

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 18:45:26 +1000 "Peter Edmonds" <termx23@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > Any suggestions for something a bit easier than Bacula but still
> > functional in a network environment?
> 
> Have a look at BackupPC
> 
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html
> 
> From the short description
> 
> BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up
> Linux and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly
> configurable and easy to install and maintain.
> 
> BackupPC is written in Perl and extracts backup data via SMB using
> Samba, tar over ssh/rsh/nfs, or rsync.
> 
> Should suit your needs.
> 
> Peter Edmonds


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