> Thanks for the replies so far :-) They were very informative. > About BackupPC itself, I'm still evaluating whether or not to actually > use it, but I'm starting to decide against it. Here are my reasons:
Not that I'm trying to sway your opinion either way, but since the majority of your analysis, though detailed, is steeped in ignorance, you're projecting the impression of somebody who has trouble changing paradigms. Not that there's really anything wrong with that, not everybody thinks flexibly, and it's not always useful to do so. I wouldn't use BackupPC to backup my Oracle data, since stepping outside Oracle's backup and recovery paradigm is generally a bad idea. On the other hand, I can't imagine inventing my own overly-complicated system of backing up Outlook Express files unless I really had nothing better to do and there was some kind of biblical passage commanding me not to purchase a cheap 500G drive whenever necessary and stop being a pain in the ass. While I appreciate your brief-albeit-misplaced-and-weirdly-patronizing lecture on the Unix philosophy, I'd recommend starting with your Backup and Recovery goals and priorities. I'd suggest that manual space management and diddling around with low level tools probably shouldn't be at the top of your list, since for many people in the US, it only takes a few hours of their time to equate to a terabyte of their time. Your mileage may vary. I'll briefly outline my own priorities for a Backup system: 1) It must be reliable 2) Files to recover must be less than 24 hours out of date 3) Recovery must be simple 4) It must take very little time and effort to maintain #1 implies a great deal, including sanity checking, notifications, awareness of free space, and so on. Having done a few bare-metal restores and considerably more registry and spot file recovery, I can say without question, and as a professional programmer, that I really do not want to have to worry about writing and maintaining that all by myself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/
