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I would recommend you use BackupPC. It's masked in portage for testing, |
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or you can install straight from source (that's actually what I did...) |
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It's pretty nice - it will use rsync or samba or tar, or rsyncd |
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depending on how you configure it. Has a nice web interface too... |
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reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> I'd like to hear of anyones experiences with a setup like the one I'll |
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> describe in a moment. I haven't worked with this extensively yet but |
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> a tentative plan looks like this: |
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> Three or more windows XP boxes that are devoted primarily to editing |
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> video or graphics in one way or another. The stuff needing backup can |
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> be in really big files but also lots of normal sized still images etc. |
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> I'm planning to use rsnapshot/rsync to back up the NTFS windows disks |
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> to a gentoo box with internal discs with the needed capacity. |
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> I guess what I'd like to hear about is any known problems with mixing |
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> filesystems like that. It will all be run over cifs from linux and the |
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> windows boxes will browse for stuff when needed over smb to the linux |
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> files . |
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> I haven't noticed any show stoppers in my small experiments but wonder |
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> how they will scale up. |
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> I'm thinking of graduating to somekind of external network storage |
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> with a raid setup and really huge capacity, but again I'd like to have |
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> the server end be gentoo and rsnapshot/rsync. |
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> Other schemes are welcome. |
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