On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 01:01 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
I backup our system at work (500GB) using rsync. Our New York office runs rsync against my backup volume. Over the years I have found rsync to be a very reliable tool.
I just got BackupPC to work on my system, after hours of torture. (Is this the worst documented Linux application?) Effectively, BackupPC is a GUI front-end to rsync. Once set up it seems quite impressive to me.
Every time I get the chance to get into BackupPC I run out of time trying to get a satisfactory starting point. I agree with you about the documentation. Have you uncovered a good tutorial for it?
No, I looked at 3 tutorials: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc http://linuxwave.blogspot.com/2008/08/installing-backuppc-in-centos-5.html But I didn't think any of them was very good; I just put together bits from each of them.
In my case, the main problem seemed to be in setting up SSH, exchanging keys between backuppc on the server and root on the client.
However, I'm not sure I got everything right; I was quite surprized when it started working perfectly!
Timothy,
Thanks for the links. I understand ssh and have used it for a long time with perl scripts to create tar files from remote PC's. However, I have not made it past the configuration of BackupPC..... thanks again for the links !!!!
Greg