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... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com