Re: [SAGE] Backup for small development network

[Dustin Puryear <dustin@puryear-it.com>]

I'll back this claim up. BackupPC really does rock. We've used it for
smallish backups as well as a large twenty-node Linux cluster doing
Oracle mayhem for a state project. Ran well.

We use BackupPC 2.x in the field, but we just started testing BackupPC
3.x in-house and it looks good. The web-based configuration tool is nifty.

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Peter Edmonds 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