Les Mikesell wrote: > Backuppc is a perl script (or a few) and not at all hard to install on > CentOS. The storage philosophy is a bit different between the two. > Backuppc will hardlink and eliminate duplicate copies of files across > target machines but a small change in a big file makes another complete > (compressed) copy. Rdiff-backup will only match duplicates with > previous copies from the same place but small changes in big files are > saved as differences. So which do you prefer? It sounds to me as though BackupPC might be a little safer? Re installation under CentOS, having just acquired a Dell PowerEdge T105 (very cheaply) as server, I've decided only to do what Dell tells me I can. I do use the Epel Fedora-like repository, so hopefully BackupPC will get in that fairly soon. "And always keep a-hold of nurse, For fear of finding something worse." -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
