Sorin Srbu wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On
Behalf
Of Barry Brimer Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 2:15 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server
I use rsnapshot .. which manages sets of rsync backups using hardlinks. IT may be similar to what you are using already ..
Somewhat similar, thanks. I think however I need to get away from this sort of backups. They're just to space-consuming.
Between compression and pooling, I get about 10x the raw data being archived with backuppc - it beats juggling tapes and you can let the users access the backups of their own machine through a web interface. There are some down sides to plan around though: the compression takes some CPU and is slower than a stock rsync run, and the pooling is done with hardlinks which forces the archive to be on a single filesystem and makes it hard to duplicate for offsite copies. There's an RPM in epel that is easy to install on Centos.