Hi all, I'd like to ask an opinion question: Do you think BackupPC is a sensible backup solution for personal, non-enterprise, only-one-computer use?
I am an astronomer. I produce a fair amount of data that I want backed up and I frequently rename directories that contain 60 - 300 GB of data. Obviously, I don't want all of that to be re-transmitted and re-copied just because I moved a directory. I searched for a backup solution that could handle directory renames/moves properly, and the only options I have found so far are BackupPC or using Git for backups. I'm not crazy about using Git for backups, but I suppose I could. BackupPC sounds great, but I realize that it is an enterprise solution that expects to run on its own separate server, probably have a local disk for backups, and so on. I suppose I could run Apache on my workstation and run BackupPC on top. I hope to get access to a file server next week. I don't know if it will be an NFS mount or an SSH login. I suppose that an NFS mount would work best for BackupPC. Anyway, that's my situation. I would love to hear any general advice you can offer. Do you think I should try with BacupPC? Is there another backup option that you'd recommend instead? Thanks. Cheers, Daniel. -- Lord of the rings calendar in your Linux/Unix/Mac terminal: cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.lotr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
