[TriLUG] Your State of Practice for Backups?

[Alan Porter]

> Fair warning though: to get decent backup throughput, you need 
> something fairly beefy for your backup server. BackupPC computes 
> checksums of files for deduplication, so cpu, memory, and disks are taxed.

That being said, I run BackupPC at home on a SheevaPlug.
http://www.slashgear.com/marvell-sheevaplug-99-linux-pc-hidden-in-a-wall-wart-2435556/

Before that, I ran it on a junker 700 MHz Pentium-III with 256 MB of 
RAM. For home use, either one of those works just fine.

Alan





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