From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 14:08:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1EFD106566C for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:08:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bcook@poughkeepsieschools.org) Received: from a.outbound.bsdwebsolutions.com (a.outbound.bsdwebsolutions.com [64.72.68.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C08E8FC08 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:08:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bcook@poughkeepsieschools.org) Received: from mail.bsdwebsolutions.com ([64.72.68.15]) by a.outbound.bsdwebsolutions.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (BSD Web Solutions, Inc.) (envelope-from ) id 1LSAjs-000GEm-P6 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:45:56 -0500 Received: from [69.206.230.54] (port=61792 helo=[172.16.64.22]) by mail.bsdwebsolutions.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (BSD WebSolutions, Inc.) (envelope-from ) id 1LSAjs-000Oxg-Kc for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (authenticated as postmaster@bsdwebsolutions.com); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:45:56 -0500 Message-ID: <49806194.9070402@poughkeepsieschools.org> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:45:56 -0500 From: "B. Cook" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200901272230.n0RMUsk7035006@dc.cis.okstate.edu> <991123400901272229i550b9003w12ae146c1d010a97@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <991123400901272229i550b9003w12ae146c1d010a97@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 69.206.230.54 X-BSD-Auth-Id: postmaster@bsdwebsolutions.com Subject: Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:08:01 -0000 Mamlookie wrote, On 1/28/2009 1:29 AM: > > I just stumbled upon BackupPC yesterday, so I amnot sure how good it can be > because I haven't had time to test, but nothing stops you from looking at > it, now that you are after a solution. > Please see http://backuppc.sourceforge.net > > PS: If you do test it out, please come back and tell us what you feel about > it. I personally will appreciate the feedback, even if to my personal > address. > I use BackupPC to backup many machines at our school and a few remote sites I admin during the 'off hours'... All FreeBSD and a few Linux servers, all over sshd/rsync; it can also pull data from win32 machines as well, but I don't do that. I have ours setup with a backuppc 'server' running from thttpd on port 2359. Keeps all the apache non-sense from messing up the install.. (imho) and gives a platform independent answer if you run it on something else.. and doesn't mess up any current webserver you may have installed. It needs perl and a few modules (all of which are in ports) and runs with very minimal intervention once its done. Highly configurable, sends emails when there are problems, has many different ways to connect to remote machines.. etc.. if you are interested in hearing more about it let me know.. General Server Information * The servers PID is 36529, on host storage.phs.pcsd, version 3.1.0, started at 1/15 14:34. * This status was generated at 1/28 08:41. * The configuration was last loaded at 1/25 13:00. * PCs will be next queued at 1/28 09:00. * Other info: * 0 pending backup requests from last scheduled wakeup, * 0 pending user backup requests, * 0 pending command requests, * Pool is 102.00GB comprising 1152712 files and 4369 directories (as of 1/28 01:33), * Pool hashing gives 385 repeated files with longest chain 34, * Nightly cleanup removed 4700 files of size 0.05GB (around 1/28 01:33), * Pool file system was recently at 37% (1/28 08:32), today's max is 37% (1/28 01:00) and yesterday's max was 37%. /dev/mirror/gm0s1h 330G 113G 190G 37% /exports This is backing up about 9/10 servers atm. does incrementals once a day, and fulls once a week. Keeps the last 10 fulls, and at least 6 incrementals.. (all my settings)