<[email protected]> wrote on 04/26/2013 06:27:32 PM:
> My point is that even with o(100) files/copies which assuming you are
> backing up multiple versions means you have far fewer distinct files
> -- you may be better off just writing a script...
I get your point, though I would ask you to define "better"...
> BackupPC is really targeted at backing up large trees of thousands of
> files. If you just have a 100 large databases, why not just use a cron
> script that copies each one and appends a datestamp or stores it in a
> different folder. It will probably be much faster too...
Why not cron? There's no Web GUI, it doesn't expire old versions easily
over an increasingly long period of time like BPC ( [2,2,2,2], for
example), I can't easily start/stop/manage the backup jobs while they're
running (short of kill -9), there's no built-in way of archiving this data
to removable storage, and I'm already keeping an close eye on my BackupPC
server for all of the other backups that it's doing, so why build a
kluged-together script when I can use the tool I've already GOT?
I agree that it's an environment where many of BackupPC's unique strengths
are not used to their advantage. But I already have it for the areas
where it *does* excel, and other than it's a little slower than a
straight-up native rsync, I get *all* those other features for free. And
as for speed: I do the localhost during the day, when the BackupPC server
would be idle anyway, so who cares about the time as long as it completes
before my backup window starts in the evening? Why *would* I use cron
instead?
Perfect is the enemy of good enough. And BackupPC is *plenty* good
enough.
Tim Massey
Out of the Box Solutions, Inc.
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