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backuppc is good stuff.
by jafo - Oct 28th 2008 09:59:01
I've been quite impressed by backuppc. The web interface is very nice and
convenient, but you can also do everything you need to via configuration
files and command-line tools. For example, I wrote a script that automates
adding a new backed-up server, including generating a SSH public key for
it, adding that key to the client machine, and configuring the backup
server.
The installation was amazingly easy. The software is only required on the
server side, the clients only need rsync via ssh or rsyncd, Samba or
similar configured so I didn't have to do any software configurations on
them. I had my test system up in under an hour running backups and it was
only a few hours to get a full production system up, including going
through all the optimizations (IO::Dirent, RSS feeds, etc).
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Excellent network backup
by Floyd - Jun 23rd 2007 23:04:40
Backuppc is really excellent! After setup, it will happily back up all your
computers and laptops to a central server. Big pluses are:
- incredibly efficient pooling of backup files. On my system, 2.7
TERABytes of backup data are compressed/pooled to around 400 GB.
- pooling allows you to back up all your machines completely, without
caring much about excludes, since all those duplicated files get pooled and
dont use any space!
- pooling also allows you to move/rename/duplicate huge directores without
causing backup space to overflow
- configuration is very flexible and well documented, but a bit large
because the program is so powerful
All in all: if you have more than a few machines to back up, have a good
look at this!
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Big security risk
by DLitz - May 27th 2007 15:48:44
BackupPC expects that the backup server will have (more-or-less) remote
root access on all the client machines. That's dangerous.
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Re: Big security risk
by Craig Barratt - Sep 15th 2007 00:38:53
Remote root access can be avoided. See:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html
Craig
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Re: Big security risk
by jafo - Oct 28th 2008 09:52:16
Indeed, backuppc does *NOT* expect that it has remote root access to the
system, as you can back up over NFS, Samba, or an rsync daemon. If you
configure it to run via rsync over SSH, you do need to have root access to
backup files that are not accessible by the backup user, but this access
can be limited via SSH authorized_keys entries to only allowing reading
files, or writing recovered files into a particular directory.
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Very scalable
by TobySmurf - Jan 18th 2006 09:32:36
I use BackupPC to keep backups of just under 300 web servers and
development machines. It keeps track of all my backups and can run many
jobs concurrently (I run about 30 backups at a time on a quad CPU backup
server). I store the backups on NAS, and even restoring 2TB of data can be
done in a couple hours. The program is getting better all the time and is
now my exculsive first level backup for my network. Great job!
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Works great!
by Andy Grundman - Oct 23rd 2003 09:12:12
BackupPC is great! The config file is a bit lengthy but once you get
everything set up it will happily back up all your systems every night
without using too much disk space. I backup 2 Windows laptops and 2 Linux
servers nightly, keeping 2 full backups and 6 incremental backups. All
together there is about 35GB of data but it's all stored compactly in about
11GB of compressed and pooled files. Each incremental backup only takes
about 3 minutes to run through 4GB of data on my laptops! Full backups
(run once a week) take about an hour.
Restoring files through the web interface is a breeze. It's already saved
one very important file I had screwed up!
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Re: Works great!
by Arno - Sep 29th 2005 08:35:59
It's really a good choice. It took me some time to
get it up and running, but it was no wasted time!
Beside my local computers I also use it to backup
my webservers via adsl.
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