A question about rsync

[Flaherty, Patrick]

I second backuppc. Really really good software.

I've never used rsnapshot (looks like a web interfaceless backuppc), but
when I used backuppc, it's only real failing was backup to tape. I could
never get archive mode running correctly. I ended up taring backuppc's
file repository to tape. If the archive tree was larger than a tape I
would have had issues retrieving single files, but all and all it worked
pretty well. The other issue was locked files over smb. Outlook data
file (.pst?) wouldn't backup correctly because they were opened in some
odd mode. I heard a bunch of hacks to make the backup work, from wmi
calls to software that clones the file somehow. Maybe newer versions of
outlook do something a bit easier to backup.

Best
Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: gnhlug-discuss-bounces at mail.gnhlug.org
[mailto:gnhlug-discuss-bounces at mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of Tyson
Sawyer
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 4:14 PM
To: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
Subject: Re: A question about rsync

On 7/23/07, Cole Tuininga <colet at code-energy.com> wrote:
> On another note, if you're using rsync to make backups, cannot more 
> highly recommend using rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org/)

Huh!  I'm using:

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

And I highly recommend it.  I just glanced at rsnapshot and after a very
quick glance it looks like the same thing.  Anyone have experience with
or knowledge of both these packages?  I'd be interested to know the
differences.

I have been very happy with Backuppc, esp. since I had already started
to write some scripts to do the same thing. ;-)

Cheers!
Ty


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Tyson D Sawyer

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