Backuppc is better solutions? Anyone similar software for this problem ?
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/10/11 1:20 AM, Railic Njegos wrote: >> I plan to use copy as backup, because second server will be old >> physical computer(about 2TB disk) >> in remote office and first server will be virtual machine on storage. >> On first server i plan to >> have one folder where i plan to copy over rsync all files from second server. > > That plan will work, but it won't protect against things like accidental > deletions or overwriting important files that aren't noticed until after the > next rsync run wipes out your copy. Backuppc or a similar backup framework > can > keep a history of copies online and cover both scenarios. Backuppc is > particularly nice in that it's compression and pooling makes it not use a lot > of > space for the history and it provides a web interface for browsing the backups > and restoring - and you can download files directly from the browser if you > want. 2TB is a lot to copy remotely, though. You may want to use some other > means to get the initial copy over - like copying to an external drive. Once > the > first copy is in place rsync will only need to copy the changes. > > -- > Les Mikesell > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
