agreed on the distro support. in fact i'd say that the more important
factors are system stability(as in dont crash OR dont change too often and
break my setup in an update!) and filesystem support and easy of system
administration.
for me, ubuntu server and debian server are very stable so that is 1 point
to them. centos/redhat also very stable. gentoo is not. gentoo and arch
and the like are not good choices for a backup box.
filesystem support...ext3 is a great filesystem so linux doesnt really have
any issues there but a BSD or UNIX with ufs ok. ZFS is my filesystem
interest right now!
administration? well, the basics of a server that does just one thing
implies simplicity in configuration.. no users to worry about, just
backuppc and maintaining hard disks. this is the draw for ZFS. it is all
the goodness of linux software raid and LVM rolled together and is MUCH MUCH
easier to admin that soft raid or LVM. im not suggesting that soft raid and
LVM are difficult, im saying ZFS is simple.
for me all those things add up to running an ubuntu server system, solaris
or opensolaris, or freebsd. i am running ubuntu in my live environment and
testing the others.
opensolaris is nice enough(using solaries express) and nexenta is
ideologically perfect as its ubuntu and opensolaris which = APT + ZFS but it
is a bit to alpha to meet the 'stable' requierment. freebsd is promising.
freebsd7 is bsd+ports+zfs which is all very nice :)
so ideal choices are what system you can manage well! the first step of
installing backuppc is so minor that it shouldnt be a driving force in your
decision.
On Dec 7, 2007 10:42 PM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jon Forrest wrote:
>
> > If your distribution already supports a recent version of perl,
> > mod_perl, and a web server then I think installing backuppc from
> > source is so easy that your choice of distribution should be based
> > on other factors than backuppc support.
> >
> > Getting it configured to work the way you want is another
> > story but this is distribution-independent.
>
> I don't even run BackupPC under mod_perl as I don't really need the
> speed for the web interface (it's not like I spend my days there) and
> I can have apache run as the default user. Even easier to setup if you
> ask me. (Using BackupPC installed from source on CentOS.)
>
> Nils Breunese.
>
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