On 24/06/13 00:02, Doug Lytle wrote: > Daniel Carrera wrote: >> 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? > If you have the space and the capabilities to do so, I don't see why > not. I use it personally in my home. My data set is no where near that > size though. I have it running as a Virtual Machine. > I think there are a number of issues here: 1) Backuppc will not store duplicate copies of files even if you rename the directory, however, it will still re-transfer the files during the first backup after the rename (even with rsync[d]).
2) BackupPC expects to store it's data on a local filesystem, NFS may or may not support hardlinks, depending on the underlying FS on the NFS server. 3) To get the full benefits of any backup solution, the backup copy should be "remote" from the source. This might mean a few metres away (protects against some things, but not fire/flood/theft/etc). However, a backup on the same physical disk is even worse, since it doesn't even protect against physical disk failure. Only you can decide how much protection you need based on the data you are working with etc. Worst case scenario, get yourself an old (or new really cheap single board computer like the Raspberry Pi) and connect some new decent size HDD's, then run backuppc on this "remote" machine. Bonus for putting it in a separate room/building/city/etc... Although keep in mind point one above when calculating bandwidth requirements. I don't know of any backup solution that would be better suited, and handle the directory rename any better (except maybe DRBD or similar, but that isn't a backup solution, that is more for redundancy). Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
