Thanks for the reply,
I guess my reluctance to installing rdiff-backup on each client is that
nearly everyone
is a different distro and or version on linux. I don't always have the best
of luck installing
things and getting them to work properly. We are now using CentOS for any
new servers
we add.
To answer your interface question, I am aiming this for administrators.
Thanks again, I just didn't want to wast time trying something that's
already been proven not to work.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Edmunds" <keith < at > midnighthax.com>
To: "tech1" <tech1 < at > collinstreet.com>
Cc: <rdiff-backup-users < at > nongnu.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] NFS question
tech1 wrote:
If I use NFS to mount each server to be backed up to the backup server,
will that work.
NFS has issues of its own (unrelated to rdiff-backup), but there's no
reason I know of for this not to work in principle. For any backup
methodology you need to:
- check the status of the backup when it ends
- test restoring files / directories / entire servers from backup
If you do those two thing then you should be reasonably safe. If you don't
then don't be surprised when you find out the backups are not as usable as
you'd hoped.
If someone has another way to
do it (without installing rdiff on each machine) please let me know.
I don't understand - and you don't explain - your reluctance to install
rdiff-backup on each client. Most distributions have it packaged so it
takes very little time. I would be reluctant to export all data from a
server via NFS simply to facilitate backups, but that's me. You know your
data and security considerations and are thus best placed to determine the
backup philosophy.
Also I am looking for a GUI or web interface to use with it. I found
this one:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/rdiffbackupweb/
There's been talk over the years of such an interface being available, and
I believe that there is one other as well. However, I've never used any of
them so I can't comment. rdiff-backup is pretty easy to drive from the
command line. Who are you aiming the web interface at: system
administrators or end users?
