On 21/09/2015 04:10, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/20/2015 6:00 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: >> I am interested in understanding the thing with BackupPC. >> What does it have compared to basic rsync? > > its a full blown backup service for any number of client hosts, it > maintains a pool of full and incremental backups going back as far as > you care, and this pool is fully dedupped to reduce its size. it uses > rsync to fetch files from the target machines when making a new > backup. the webui can be used to browse these backups and restore any > portion of any backed up file system to any point at which there's a > backup. > > the 'windows agent' is a stripped down installation of rsyncd from cygwin. > Thanks! I wasn't sure how it would fetch from a windows machine. Eliezer