Darac Marjal grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > May I put in a vote for BackupPC?
Sure! :-) I'm interested in knowing what's out there, so I can look
them all over and decide which one will best do the job I want it to do.
> The Pros as I see them are:
> * Web based configuration, making it easy to get started with (but you
> can also dig into plain-text config files easily enough, too.
> * Can backup a machine using rsync, rsyncd, tar-over-ssh or even SMB
> (for backing up Windows machines without installing any client on
> them)
> * De-duplicates files both in time (so if you make two full backups
> onto one disk, it only takes up the size of the first image plus any
> changed data) and in space (if you backup two linux machines, there
> will be common OS files and these are de-duplicated). Hard links are
> used to "fill" the backups, so each one looks like a full backup.
> * Restoring a file can be "pushed" back from the web interface.
Sounds like it's worth a look. Thanks for he suggestion!
--Dave
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