backup of my / filesystem

[Gregory P. Ennis]

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