On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 10:46:07AM -0400, Bob Weber wrote:
> I use backuppc.  It is web browser based setup and usage.  It takes 
> incremental
> and full backups that can remain as long as you want or have space for.  It 
> can
> browse files by name or in a version mode where you can see the date where a
> file changed and restore an earlier version if you want (or to a separate 
> download directory).  It compresses files for space and only keeps one copy 
> of a
> file's data if it is located in different directories or servers (using hard
> links as needed).  It can even backup user data for windows users (samba).  I
> use the rsync transfer for Linux machines and even with windows running 
> Cygwin.
> 
> I currently backup 8 computers going back almost 1 year.  I even backup a vm 
> at
> digital ocean.  Backuppc reports this:
> 
> 144 full backups of total size 8951.56GB (prior to pooling and compression),
> 57 incr backups of total size 57.13GB (prior to pooling and compression).
> Pool is 358.94GB comprising 1903010 files and 4369 directories (as of 10/1 
> 01:09).
> 
> So 8951GB is compressed or pooled into just 358 GB! 

Wow, that is impressive!

Mark

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