On 12/18/06, Raja Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/17/06, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If anyone needs the latest BackupPC port for OpenBSD 4.0 please let me know. > > It is not currently in the ports tree. > > The maintainer was kind enough to send it to me. > > I am successfully running a backup server with it for some time now. > > It can be run without disturbing the chrooted apache in base :-) > > I've been successfully using rdiff-backup, but it's only to backup > *nix boxen. >
The main advantage of backuppc is that it has a webfront that can be used to restore the backup of any particular date directly to the original location or download the particular files/folders as zip file. the latest one's GUi also helps in configuration. Also you backuppc can use rsync to backup *nx clients and smb to backup NS Windows clients. > I evaluated backuppc, but never got around to actually using it. > I'm interested in knowing your experiences with backuppc. > I am a very satisfied backuppc user for the following reason. 1) it is very fast 2) it does not create much network load because it uses rsync for network transfer. 3) you can do "differential incremental" backups ( "incremental" backups in microspft terms, and microsoft calls "cumilative differential" backups as just "differential" backup) 4) restoring differential incremental backups of folders or file of a particular date is easy because backuppc automatically finds files of corresponding full backups and other incremental backups that are related to a date. >Can you > please share your setup and how you are using it? > I will set it to you privately as well because I am not sure our mailinglist accept attachments. it has a read me that explains the setup. if you get stuck just ask :-) >Are you using > it to backup any Windows boxes? > Not yet buce once I get back to office I will configure it. My younger brother has been using it in his company to backup SMB clients (Windows/Samba shares) quite successfully I backup OpenBSD/FreeBSD/Debian Servers with it currently. Kind regards Siju _______________________________________________ bsd-india mailing list [email protected] http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india
