Morning,
I have just started to play with backuppc and am making good strides - local
(SMB) backups are working fine and I am just about to have a look at
rsync-based backups from a couple of local Linux servers before moving on to
SMB/rsync via SSH and some VPNs.
I am diligently RTFM-ing, supplemented with the stuff found via Google -
which is a bit overwhelming, so I'd appreciate some short cuts from anyone
with a bit more real-world experience if possible:
1) I presume(?) SMB-based backups cannot do block-difference-level copies
like rsync? We have a number of remote (over VPN) Windows servers and I'd
like to backup their MSSQL database dumps - they are around 700MB at the
moment and I presume via SMB the whole lot will get transferred every time?
2) I have seen a number of guides for cwrsync on Windows-based PCs. Any
votes on the best one and the best place to read up on this? I presume that
since we'd be backing up via VPN, we could run rsync directly rather than
via an SSH tunnel?
3) As the remote sites are linked via VPN, I could mount the remote shares
to the local backup server and use rsync 'directly' - any pros/cons doing
things this way (speed, reliability etc?), or is an rsync server on the
remote servers a better approach?
4) I am running the backup server on CentOS 5.3 and installed backuppc from
the Centos RPM. Ideally I'd like to run the app as the normal 'apache' user
- I read up on a few generic notes about doing this and got to a point where
backuppc wouldn't start properly as it couldn't create the LOG file. I then
went round in circles looking at file permissions before putting things back
the way they were in order to do some more learning. Is there a
simple-to-follow guide for setting up backuppc to not use mod_perl - I have
read the docs but am still not getting there.
Many thanks
Nigel Kendrick
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