On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Reid Rivenburgh wrote: > > Hi. I have a small network at home consisting of one wired, always-on > > F8 desktop (mine), a roving Mac laptop running OS X, and a rarely-on > > Windows XP laptop. The laptops are wireless. I also have a new 500 > > GB external hard drive that some of you may remember. The Mac user > > was thinking about getting a drive for herself to do backups using > > Time Machine or whatever Apple's backup app is. But we figured there > > ought to be a way to backup to my desktop/hard drive. I looked around > > and found BackupPC. It sounds like it'd do the job, if I could figure > > it out. (I'm having trouble discovering the Mac on the network > > [doesn't respond to nmblookup], and I have a feeling if I can get past > > that, I will have additional trouble getting rsync or tar to work > > there....) I thought I'd check here to see if there's anything else > > out there that would work. Ideally, it would be transparent to the > > clients, automatic when they're on the network, incremental.... You > > know, um, everything BackupPC does! Free and open source would be > > best.... > > If it is your network you shouldn't have to 'discover' it. The simple > fix is to configure your dhcp server to always give the same IP > addresses to the same MAC addresses and then either put the addresses > and names in the backuppc's hosts file or set up local DNS service. > There shouldn't be any problem running ssh, rsync, or tar on a Mac. > Many people on the backuppc mail list are backing up macs, so ask there > if you run into any problems. I've made a lot of progress on this. My router seems flaky about assigning reserved IP addresses, but that's supposed to work. A fedora-specific issue, though, is that I get an error when I try to use compression with BackupPC. Here's a little test perl program that demonstrates: #!/usr/bin/perl use Compress::Zlib; % ./compress-test.pl is only avaliable with the XS version at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9. Compilation failed in require at ./date-test.pl line 2. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./date-test.pl line 2. Bug 434574 sounds related. I guess I can wait for this to get fixed and just not use compression in the meantime. Or do you know of a workaround...? Thanks, reid
