On 2/12/11 6:54 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
>>> OTOH, for mere backup using rsync and ssh might work even better and be
>>> somewhat simplier.
>>
>> except that provides no point in time restoration ability.
>>
>> I prefer backup schemes that use dump/restore to do occasional full and
>> regular incremental backups, and for these, NFS is quite useful.
>
> rsnapshot is a perl script wrapper for rsync.
So is backuppc (plus it can also use use tar, smb, or ftp to collect the files).
> Works *beautifully* to
> provide hardlinked temporal snapshot repositories, I've used it
> effectively for years.
Backuppc can compress the files and also pools all duplicate content with
hardlinks even if found on different machines. And it provides a nice web
interface to browse and restore backups either by downloading through the
browser or copying back to the source machine. The web interface can restrict
the view of a user to only certain machines so users can do their own restores
and control the configuration for their own machines.
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Les Mikesell
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