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On Friday 09 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> A backup device is just a storage appliance, if should not be |
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> parochial about the origin of the data it stores. |
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Agreed. I have gentoo boxes out there that contain backups for |
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themselves, other gentoo machines, tens of various Windows machines and |
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even the odd Mac or two. Oh yeah, some Ubuntu servers too. |
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All backup clients write to different directories, based on their |
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hostname/IP address. No collisions. |
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One thing I won't do is backup a Linux machine to a Windows machine as I |
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can't easily extract file metadata that way. Windows to Linux is easy |
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as Windows is virtually unusable unless the average user does the |
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equivalent of this after a restore: |
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chmod -R 777 /path/to/restored/directory/ |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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