Hello:
One thing that needs to be considered is the number of machines and the
amount of data to be backed up. The robustness of the file system then
becomes and issue, as pointed out earlier. This to me seems like the
biggest artifact to consider.
>From the perspective of 'working out of the box' and administration, I found
Debian 5 to be very easy to install/troubleshoot and package management is
easy. Getting and installing backuppc was easy and trouble free. Plus, a
large userbase ensures good forum activity, so looking for and finding
information is greatly enhanced - not to mention, IMHO, the existing
documentation and how-tos are pretty good.
I run Debian on a 1GHZ workstation with 512KB and, to be honest, it is
pretty snappy. If the machine is used primarly as a backup server the
performance limiting factor is generally network bandwidth, unless sw
compression is done.
Pet peve: One issue that I have found quite annoying is that the
Debian/Ubuntu branches have their own structure of where to put applications
and utilities in the file structure. I came from a Bell Labs/ATT/BDS UNIX
background and have used Slackware extensively in the past. For me, that was
the 'standard' and routing around the guts of Debian and finding out (and
still learning) were system files, application files etc are located has
been a little frustrating. So was the concept of sudo in Ubuntu (Why is
there no easily identifiable root state (e.g. root terminal)...At least
Debian will launch a root terminal ....So, I guess it just depends what one
is accustom to......
-John
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Huw Wyn Jones <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Me again! :-)
>
> Is there much difference between Linux distros when it comes to building a
> new Backuppc server from scratch? I'm thinking of going for either CentOS or
> Debian but I was curious if anyone had any comments or insight on the
> matter.
>
> TIA
>
> Huw
>
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