[Leaplist] backup application

[Kevin Korb]

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I think I might actually prefer the loss of data files to the loss of a
Windows system.  There is nothing worse that having to
install/configure/patch a Windows system.  Even people who know Windows
can blow an entire day doing that.

Jason Boxman wrote:
> On Thursday 28 May 2009 19:48:15 Kevin Korb wrote:
>> I use rsync and hard links as well but with scripts I wrote not
>> something like dirvish.
>>
> <snip>
>> I really didn't like switching from Linux to OpenSolaris for backups but
>> there just isn't a way Linux can compare with those results.  Perhaps
>> brtfs will fix that some day.
> 
> Not the first account I've heard of a switch to OpenSolaris for access to ZFS.  
> I haven't seriously considered making the switch yet, but perhaps one day I 
> will.
> 
> I just looked at Backula.  Version 3 just came out, and it looks interesting.  
> It did last time I looked, too, but it's also quite complicated.  The native 
> Windows support for backups is rather nice, though.  I have Windows hosts I 
> would probably backup if it were reasonably possible with `rsync`, but it's 
> too much of a hassle.  (That and no critical files should be on the physical 
> Windows desktop disks.)
> 
> I'm going to have a couple VirtualBox VMs I'll need to integrate into my 
> rotation somehow.  Probably be done the same as hardware hosts.
> 
> 

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