Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:32 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se> >>> wrote: >>>>> >>>> Can e.g. BackupPC handle several file systems to backup to? >>>> I.e. comp1 through 10 should backup to /bak1, comp 11 through 20 to >>>> /bak2 and so on. >>> >>> The main point of backuppc is that it hard-links all files with >>> identical content to save space, so it needs to put everything on one >>> filesystem. However, I'm getting pretty good performance running it >> <snip> >> *shrug* >> So does rsync - we use hard links a *lot*, to keep 4-5 weeks of full >> nightly backups for a lot of servers. > > No, rsync will only hardlink to instances of the same file in the same > location from previous runs. Backuppc will link every file with True. But we have a directory structure like .../servername |-> date1 date2 > identical contents even from different machines and locations. And it > compresses them. So you could probably keep 2 to 10x the history > online compared to anything else. Plus it has a nice web interface. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >