[BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Jimmy Thrasibule
Hello, I'm looking on how to use BackupPC in order to backup a bunch of Windows installations and some Mac too. This is not my main concern as after reading the documentation, I think that BackupPC is well suited for that. My main problem is that I also have some external servers (spread over

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Jimmy Thrasibule thrasibule.ji...@gmail.com wrote: My main problem is that I also have some external servers (spread over the Internet) to backup. In that case using as less as bandwidth as possible can be useful. As I understood, BackupPC downloads all the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Michael Stowe
My main problem is that I also have some external servers (spread over the Internet) to backup. In that case using as less as bandwidth as possible can be useful. As I understood, BackupPC downloads all the data and do deduplication on the server side. A tool doing dedpulication on the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote: My main problem is that I also have some external servers (spread over the Internet) to backup. In that case using as less as bandwidth as possible can be useful. As I understood, BackupPC downloads all the data

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Jimmy Thrasibule
And more to the point, do they have duplicate files that change in duplicate ways so the difference would matter more than once? After you get your initial copy, rsync is only going to xfer the changes. Indeed I wasn't aware of the delta transfer feature of rsync. I was thinking that it was

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Jimmy Thrasibule thrasibule.ji...@gmail.com wrote: And more to the point, do they have duplicate files that change in duplicate ways so the difference would matter more than once? After you get your initial copy, rsync is only going to xfer the changes.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup plan

2012-10-23 Thread Jimmy Thrasibule
OK, Thanks, I'll start to play with BackupPC. Jimmy signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download