No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

[Alan Johnson]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Shawn O'Shea <shawn at eth0.net> wrote:

>  I've heard good things about BackupPC, but never personally tried it. It
> supports Linux/Win/OSX, and is designed for backing up to servers (your
> network drive in this case). It has a Web GUI.
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html
>
>
Use it at home and probably will at work soon.  Love it.  Does take a bit
of configuring, but the GUI works you through it.  It uses hardlinks to
de-duplicate any files that are identical (uses a hash database) so it can
be pretty hard on inodes.  Best to mkfs with small files settings or use a
file system that has infinite inodes.  I use reiserfs on my backup drive
for this reason.  Is it XFS that also has no inode issues?  I stick with
reiser because I don't want to piss him off.

Another trick I've learned is to make sure you have stable/static IPAs:
manual-static code them in or DHCP-static code them by MAC address if your
DHCP server allows (much nicer IMHO).  This only matters if you are using
one of the transfer options that use SSH since it relies on key changes. I
think there is a way to tell SSH/rsync to ignore key errors, but then you
might mess up your clients.  I have not see a way to uniquely identify a
server other than by name/IPA.

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Alan Johnson
alan at datdec.com
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