I have not had any troubles with BackupPC (on the Debian system). BackupPC does deduplication which I don't believe that Bacula does. From the point of view of the clients the backups are done automatically, as long as they leave their computers on and connected to the network.
The web service of BackupPC is how files can be restored, which I cannot get to run. I may have to rebuild a Debian system. BackupPC backing up of Windows system is not complete. It will not backup busy files. So a manual process for backing up database files has to be used. I keep backups monthly for two years, weekly for 6 months and daily for 2 months. BackupPC also has trouble with Windows junction points. I have those removed in the configuration files. I have found any not troubles with backing up Unix like systems. If you ask google "open source backup deduplication" BackupPC is the only one on the list. Deduplication drastically shrinks the size of the file store. The previous backup system that was in use could only store 2 or 3 backup on 2 Terabytes. The older backups were put on tape. Now (or at least a week ago) I have two years of backups on 4 Terabytes, and I have no tapes. -----Original Message----- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Peter N. M. Hansteen Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 3:49 PM To: 'misc@openbsd.org' Subject: Re: BackupPC Peter Fraser <p...@thinkage.ca> writes: > For years I have a had Debian system that ran BackupPC. > The system was used to back up a bunch of Windows workstations and servers. > The Debian system self-destructed when doing a update. I must admit this is the first I heard of BackupPC, but since this sounds like at time when some grunt work is to be expected anyway, I thought it may not be totally useless to recommend looking at a different backup product. The only backup system I've actually ever enjoyed working with is Bacula (in packages, and it supports a wide range of systems, including the Seattle-area ones). More complicated than tar or rsync for sure, but it scales and is in my experience at least a very admin-friendly solution. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
