Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Les Mikesell a écrit :
>
>> 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.
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Les Mikesell
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