Re: [CentOS] Testing remote machine status in a script ?

Niki Kovacs wrote:

Les Mikesell a écrit :

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The big win with backuppc is that it will also compress the files and find matches across multiple machines and hard-link all identical content. Plus you get a nice web interface to configure it and browse/restore.

Sound nice. Probably a case of: now I found a solution with a long and complicated Bash script, I may as well use the nifty little app that did it nicely beforehand :o)

Backuppc is all perl - including a reimplementation of rsync that knows how to work with compressed local files while chatting with a stock remote version. But the way I look at it is that the complexity is irrelevant as long as someone else already did the work and it is well tested.