BackupPC – Fun Project
by admin on Dec.04, 2007, under IT Adventures
Last week I stayed after work a bit and got BackupPC installed and configured on my server at work.
I wrote a wiki article describing the install process and a few issues I ran into which might be helpful should you care to try this software out.
BackupPC is really fantastic. It allows cross platform backups to a central point, pools redundant files to save space, has various compression and transfer method options. If a few clicks you can restore files back to the client, or download them directly.
One thing is that it requires host name resolution of the clients. Since I will be backing up clients at home over the internet I am going to next explore setting up a VPN using OpenVPN so the servers can see these clients directly. You could also just use something like dyndns.com to assign a domain name to you dynamic home ip, etc.
Highly recomend this as an automated backup solution for personal or business use.
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December 9th, 2007 on 4:55 pm
Hey Pete-
When I clicked on the feed button to subscribe, I got a list of your posts in a different format. Usually when I click on feed, I get the option of which reader I want to use and then option to subscribe.
??
I’m a bit RSS-challenged…
Very cool about the rescue diver training.