Greetings,
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
Look at backuppc. It has a nice web interface to manage it and browse/restore backups and it compresses and pools identical content to hold much more online than you would expect. It is all controlled from the linux side and can work with windows either over smb or you can install cygwin rsync to save bandwidth.
Thanks a million for that!
You would want to format the drive with a linux filesystem, though.
Now, that is a typical dilemma that any sysadmin (a lowly and not so respected Job in India), and I can't do that that is a constraint as this external HDD is supposed to be connected for recovery on a (horror of horrors! - winx node in case the centos node fails -- nevermind the neat li'l tar format -- coz everybody in this scenario is afraid of Centos. Well gimme a week. I have at least one Centos box [the elephant in the china shop] to fight with and turn them around :) )
With warm regards and best wishes,
Rajagopal