Juergen Harms wrote at about 21:06:33 +0100 on Sunday, January 3, 2021: > > Has anybody had good success running BackupPC 4.x on a Raspberry PI? > Looks like a quite popular question. > > Standard Raspbian software comes from Debian, and the present Debian > (Buster) BackupPC package is (and will remain for quite some time) > BackupPC 3: you have the choice of (a) installing BackupPC 4 from from > the tarball - has been done (see > https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues/265), but is not quite > evident, or (b) trying to run some other distro on the Raspberry (most > of them, except Ubuntu, have packages that use BackupPC 4).
I have compiled my own debian packages for Ubuntu x86 so I believe I will be able to similarly compile them for Raspbian... :) > From the point of view of performance, I would be optimistic. I have > had good experience porting a quite complex Gtk GUI (music catalogue > application) from my PC to a Raspberry PI - amazing that, although the > response times with the PI are slightly sluggish, the Raspberry turned > out to be a quite acceptable alternative to the PC (I am using the 8GB > RAM variant, but merely for being defensive). > > The main question with respect to BackupPC is efficiency of Raspberry > USB. My music application uses rsync to synchronise the catalogue (200 > Gbytes) between the PC and the PI - works without problem, but is not > super fast. Are you using the USB3 port? Do you know what bandwidth you are getting? With USB3, the limitation is going to be the hard drive itself... > > Good luck! > Thanks! _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
