[CentOS] [OT] Building a new backup server

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Tue Nov 5 14:32:45 UTC 2013


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.

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