On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 04:54:50PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 12/3/2010 4:32 PM, Gavin Carr wrote:
We've moved to brackup (http://code.google.com/p/brackup/) for these reasons, and are doing nightly backups of 18TB of data quite happily. Brackup does fancy chunk-based deduplication (somewhat like git), and so avoids the hard link approach entirely.
Brackup looks more like a 'push out a backup from a single host' concept as opposed to backuppc's 'pull all backups from many targets to a common server with appropriate scheduling' so you'd probably use them in different scenarios.
Yeah, you're right, the brackup model is push, and backuppc is quite a different beast in that respect. I was really talking more generally about hard-linked based backups than backuppc in particular.
Cheers, Gavin