Hi Everyone,
Sorry i missed the meeting Thursday a Xerox guy turned up late then i couldn't get him to leave :(
Can everyone look over http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Backup and provide some feedback here so that we can get some traction moving forward.
Some issues not covered in the wiki are how each would be implemented. i know rdiff-backup and i assume backuppc would need to be ran by a user who has sufficient privileges on each machine to read whats needed to be backed up. what does this mean?
Well in the case of rdiff-backup it could be run centrally as a cron job but the user that gets connected to at the other end needs to be able to read everything or it could be decentralised and run as a cron job for root on each box being backed up. it could then send the data to the backup server as a user with no privileges.
bacula avoids this by running a daemon on each host. If there is still people wanting to use bacula I will finish and submit the bacula package I started on for extras so we can get a review of it rolling. If there is demand for backuppc then I can start packaging it or someone else can if they want.
But please provide some feedback or I will make a decision myself.
Regards Dennis
Dennis Gilmore wrote:
Can everyone look over http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/ Backup and provide some feedback here so that we can get some traction moving forward.
Some issues not covered in the wiki are how each would be implemented. i know rdiff-backup and i assume backuppc would need to be ran by a user who has sufficient privileges on each machine to read whats needed to be backed up. what does this mean?
The list looks pretty nice. I've implemented a BackupPC setup at my own company that is still in testing, but is already backing up ~10 servers (Fedora and CentOS machines) using rsync over ssh. In my setup BackupPC runs as a special shell-less user whose passphrase- less public key is added to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys on each host that is backed up. So far I'm loving BackupPC. However, I haven't seen any other solutions in action, so I can't say to much about them. However, judging from the list and the homepages of these solutions BackupPC does seem like a very easy to implement solution. If it can deliver all requirements I'd say give BackupPC a whirl.
Nils Breunese.
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