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