Jeff McAffer wrote: > I am looking to use BackupPC in an environment with several roaming > laptops and a wad of disk on a hosting site. I am not a sysadmin > expert and looking at the doc it is not readily apparent if this is > something reasonable to attempt. There are some mentions of > installing things as root (not possible), adding Perl libs (perhaps > they can be added in my own account?), etc. And then there is the > whole DHCP and client discovery thing. This post is to test the > water and see if I am even close to the right solution with > BackupPC. It would be great if someone could point me in the right > direction. > > - Hosted system on which I can run Perl but need to install some of > the required modules (e.g., rsync) in locations other than the > default/standard one since they are not installed by default. > BackupPC would be installed there. > - Have client periodically wake up and talk to the server over HTTPS > or SSH to initiate a backup (I don't mind having something on the > client). The backup could then proceed as client push or server > pull, tunnels, whatever is best. > - Only the files that are changed would be uploaded (assuming > incremental) > - The files are pooled on the server but more over, changes between > versions of the files are stored as diffs (think RCS, bdiff, ...) > - even better the files on the server are stored encrypted and > compressed > > One concern I have is whether this whole process just too heavy for > a standard/typical web hosting server (i.e., are the sysadmins there > going to flame me for trying something like this)? I am not buying > compute time, just web/file hosting. If I start sucking gobs of CPU > it would not go unnoticed.
I don't think this is going to work. If even you can get BackupPC running it is definately going to suck up gobs of CPU and memory. You need to run a daemon, run very I/O-intensive disk operations, I don't think they're going to like it, provided you get this running at all. I'm afraid you'll need to get your own box if you want to run BackupPC. You could try to setup something like rdiff-backup on the clients and use the online storage. No need to run any code on the server. > On a slightly different note, someone mentioned that BackupPC would > copy things to the server over time where possible so as you roam > around it would get a bit here and a bit there. A bit like a > rolling backup. Where they smokin' something? did I misunderstand? > really really?! Backups can be saved as partial backups, yes, if that's what you mean. Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
