Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> >> Still not sounding like we need it. We back up /etc from all our servers >> (except for the compute cluster nodes every night, and keep about 5 >> weeks. >> Home directories are 100% NFS-mounted from servers, and those are backed >> up every night onto a handful of backup servers, as are various project >> directories. > > Other ways work, of course - but typically they are much less > efficient than backuppc which would only need storage for one > compressed copy of each unique file in /etc regardless of the number > of hosts or backups saved, are harder to manage, and often lack > convenience features like being able to assign 'owners' to hosts that > get email if a host is not backed up for any reason for a specified > number of days or easily being able to control concurrency and the > backup window for individual targets. And home-grown solutions > generally need someone who understands the code for support. If > that's you, I suppose that is job security... Well, no - my manager, who's been here a bunch of years, wrote it years ago. And I'm not quite sure what you're saying - we have a centralized logging host, and the backup cron job on each machine emails its results to our admin mailing list. mark