Re: [CentOS] Setting up BackupPC on CentOS-7

2015-09-20 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
I am interested in understanding the thing with BackupPC. What does it have compared to basic rsync? - It has a webui Is it like a central backup server? if so, how it works with windows clients(if it is?) Just want to make sure.. I understood right. Why did you choose this over other

Re: [CentOS] I want to connect to a l2tp server from centos.

2015-09-20 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Hey Gordon, I do not have any security issue in this network. I need to connect to a remote network on a secure network. The options are pptp or l2tp(no ipsec encryption) so I do want to use l2tp like in (lac\lns) and I am looking for a client for CentOS. Note that it works in ubuntu so it is

Re: [CentOS] Setting up BackupPC on CentOS-7

2015-09-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/20/2015 6:00 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: I am interested in understanding the thing with BackupPC. What does it have compared to basic rsync? its a full blown backup service for any number of client hosts, it maintains a pool of full and incremental backups going back as far as you

Re: [CentOS] Setting up BackupPC on CentOS-7

2015-09-20 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 21/09/2015 04:10, John R Pierce wrote: On 9/20/2015 6:00 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: I am interested in understanding the thing with BackupPC. What does it have compared to basic rsync? its a full blown backup service for any number of client hosts, it maintains a pool of full and

[CentOS] Setting up BackupPC on CentOS-7

2015-09-20 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'd be interested in any corrections or comments on the following instructions (basically for myself): We assume that BackupPC has been installed: sudo yum install BackupPC 1. BackupPC must be run by the user backuppc. Accordingly the lines User apache Group apache in