Re: Recommendation: Backup system
On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 10:46:07AM -0400, Bob Weber wrote:
> I use backuppc. It is web browser based setup and usage. It takes incremental
> and full backups that can remain as long as you want or have space for. It can
> browse files by name or in a version mode where you can see the date where a
> file changed and restore an earlier version if you want (or to a separate
> download directory). It compresses files for space and only keeps one copy of a
> file's data if it is located in different directories or servers (using hard
> links as needed). It can even backup user data for windows users (samba). I
> use the rsync transfer for Linux machines and even with windows running Cygwin.
>
> I currently backup 8 computers going back almost 1 year. I even backup a vm at
> digital ocean. Backuppc reports this:
>
> 144 full backups of total size 8951.56GB (prior to pooling and compression),
> 57 incr backups of total size 57.13GB (prior to pooling and compression).
> Pool is 358.94GB comprising 1903010 files and 4369 directories (as of 10/1 01:09).
>
> So 8951GB is compressed or pooled into just 358 GB!
Wow, that is impressive!
Mark
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