Hi Les, On 25 June 2013 17:38, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having a little trouble reconciling the idea of a 'personal' > backup with hundreds of gigs of data per directory, a file server, a > sysadmin, etc. so I don't think we have the whole picture here.
I am happy to clarify anything that isn't clear. I am an astronomer. I am at a university where I do simulations on a supercomputer. My simulations produce a few hundred gigs of data. One of the researchers here also doubles as sysadmin, but that is a part time activity along with his research. We mostly look after our own computers, including backups. I said "personal backup" because I have only one computer, and I am root. Recently the sysadmin decided to add a backup server running BackupPC. I did not know this when this thread started. Yesterday, he and I sat down together and setup BackupPC to SSH to my workstation and backup my home. I am one of the first people in the department to start using the new backup server. So, as of now, I have a brand new account with a BackupPC server running on a separate host, as recommended by the people in this forum. I hope I didn't waste anyone's time with my questions. It is a real coincidence that the sysadmin decided to start using BackupPC at about the same time that I started thinking about it. > The way to do that cheaply is > to stuff some big sata drives in a raid 1 or 10 configuration in a > machine that does something else in the daytime. Given reasonable > hardware you can run backuppc in a VM if necessary (i.e. it doesn't > run linux natively or you would not have appropriate access to the > host otherwise). I am not sure what the server's setup is, but I'd imagine it is some sort of RAID. > If the underlying data is compressible it may take a lot less storage > than you expect. I just did a quick test: Gzip compressed a sample data file by 35.7% :-) > Also, if are 'trying things out' you might be able > to test the upcoming 4.0 version. If I understand the concepts, it > may be able to detect existing but moved/renamed files before they are > transferred where the 3.x versions would have to copy them before > matching in the pool. I have a spare computer in storage that's not been used for anything. I think I'll set up a home backup server for me and my wife. Thanks for the help. 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/
