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On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 17:41 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Renke Brausse wrote at about 23:31:09 +0200 on Friday, May 22, 2009: > > > It's that initial setup / learning curve... If was past that I'd be > > > setting up BackupPC on the toaster oven. > > > > excellent point. I started with some backuppc 2.x and my current 3.x is > > _really_ user friedly and easy going. but if I try to imagine what would > > happen when I just looked for a simple backup solution for my private > > needs BackupPC would be overkill. why should I invest time for something > > like a stupid file copy application? > > > > long story short: yes, backuppc is not simple - but a running instance > > is like fire-and-forget. I just start my laptop and home and one to two > > hours later everything is safe on the RAID of my backuppc server. > > I spent weeks tweaking it for my setup (most of the time was spent > figuring out how to add NFS to my consumer NAS devices and figuring > out how to get full backups of Windoze machines). Since then, I just > glance at the occasional email reports. > > In fact, it has become so "fire-and-forget" that part of me worries > what if it really is not doing what I think and hope it is... Maybe I > should check it out once in a while ;) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT > is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet > the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & > iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian > Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
