[TriLUG] BackupPC tutorial

[Randy Barlow]

Alan Porter wrote:
> One of the perennial topics on this list is backups.  There's a lot
> of support in the group for rsync and backuppc.  Today, I ran across
> a pretty nice tutorial on setting up backuppc.
> 
> I use backuppc at home and also at "the oven place".  It's easy to set
> up, easy to run, and it does not complain much.  I highly recommend it
> for home or for a small office.
> 
> This article was written specifically for Debian systems, but the
> concepts apply everywhere (although I will warn that I've tried it
> on Fedora systems, and I missed the apache/backuppc integration that
> the Debian package maintainers have done).
> 
> URL: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/588
> 
> And by the way, this site is a pretty good resource for tips and
> tricks, especially if you are a Debian or Ubuntu user.  It's a
> fairly low volume site, just a handful of posts per month.

BackupPC is great!  If you are a gentoo user, I and some others have 
proposed an ebuild that installs backuppc with apache integration.  You 
can find that on the version bump request on the gentoo bugzilla which 
will likely never get honored.  BackupPC seems like it will be forever 
masked, but I just put my ebuild in an overlay and voila.

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Randy Barlow
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