[CentOS] Two Samba Servers and Rsync

Railic Njegos railic.njegos at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 13:43:59 UTC 2011


Backuppc is better solutions? Anyone similar software for this problem ?

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/10/11 1:20 AM, Railic Njegos wrote:
>> I plan to use copy as backup, because second server will be old
>> physical computer(about 2TB disk)
>> in remote office and first server will be virtual machine on storage.
>> On first server i plan to
>> have one folder where i plan to copy over rsync all files from second server.
>
> That plan will work, but it won't protect against things like accidental
> deletions or overwriting important files that aren't noticed until after the
> next rsync run wipes out your copy.  Backuppc or a similar backup framework can
> keep a history of copies online and cover both scenarios.  Backuppc is
> particularly nice in that it's compression and pooling makes it not use a lot of
> space for the history and it provides a web interface for browsing the backups
> and restoring - and you can download files directly from the browser if you
> want.  2TB is a lot to copy remotely, though.  You may want to use some other
> means to get the initial copy over - like copying to an external drive. Once the
> first copy is in place rsync will only need to copy the changes.
>
> --
>   Les Mikesell
>    lesmikesell at gmail.com
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