On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 01:01 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > >> > I backup our system at work (500GB) using rsync. Our New York office > >> > runs rsync against my backup volume. Over the years I have found rsync > >> > to be a very reliable tool. > > >> I just got BackupPC to work on my system, after hours of torture. > >> (Is this the worst documented Linux application?) > >> Effectively, BackupPC is a GUI front-end to rsync. > >> Once set up it seems quite impressive to me. > > > Every time I get the chance to get into BackupPC I run out of time > > trying to get a satisfactory starting point. I agree with you about the > > documentation. Have you uncovered a good tutorial for it? > > No, I looked at 3 tutorials: > <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC> > <http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc> > <http://linuxwave.blogspot.com/2008/08/installing-backuppc-in-centos-5.html> > But I didn't think any of them was very good; > I just put together bits from each of them. > > In my case, the main problem seemed to be in setting up SSH, > exchanging keys between backuppc on the server > and root on the client. > > However, I'm not sure I got everything right; > I was quite surprized when it started working perfectly! > > Timothy, Thanks for the links. I understand ssh and have used it for a long time with perl scripts to create tar files from remote PC's. However, I have not made it past the configuration of BackupPC..... thanks again for the links !!!! Greg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
