No use of hardlinks (except temporarily to do atomic renames).
Here's a short summary of what has changed in V4: This section provides a short overview of the changes and features in 4.0. This is the first release of 4.0, which is a significant rewrite of BackupPC. Email content, timing and policies are configurable.īackupPC is Open Source software hosted by GitHub. Users are sent periodic email reminders if their PC has not recently been backed up. Configuration parameters can be set system-wide or also on a per-PC basis.
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Configuration settings allow machines connected via slower WAN connections (eg: dial up, DSL, cable) to not be backed up, even if they use the same fixed or dynamic IP address as when they are connected directly to the LAN.įlexible configuration parameters allow multiple backups to be performed in parallel, specification of which shares to backup, which directories to backup or not backup, various schedules for full and incremental backups, schedules for email reminders to users and so on. Finally, direct restore to the client machine (using smb or tar) for selected files or directories is also supported from the CGI interface.īackupPC supports mobile environments where laptops are only intermittently connected to the network and have dynamic IP addresses (DHCP). Zip or Tar archives for selected files or directories from any backup can also be downloaded from the CGI interface. Single files can be downloaded from any backup directly from the CGI interface. Alternatively, rsync can also be used on WinXX (using cygwin), since rsync provides for efficient transfers and allows incremental backups to detect almost all changes.įlexible restore options. On linux, unix or MacOSX clients, rsync, tar (over ssh/rsh/nfs) or ftp is used to extract backup data. On WinXX the standard smb protocol is used to extract backup data. The http/cgi user interface has internationalization (i18n) support, currently providing English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Chinese, Polish, Czech, Japanese, Ukrainian, and Russian. The CPU impact of compression is low since only new files (those not already in the pool) need to be compressed.Ī powerful http/cgi user interface allows administrators to view the current status, edit configuration, add/delete hosts, view log files, and allows users to initiate and cancel backups and browse and restore files from backups.
Identical files across multiple backups of the same or different PC are stored only once, resulting in substantial savings in disk storage and disk writes.Ĭompression provides additional reductions in storage, depending on the type of data being backed up. For other sites additional permanent archives could be created by periodically backing up the server to tape.Ī clever pooling scheme minimizes disk storage and disk I/O. For some sites this might be the complete backup solution. Given the ever decreasing cost of disks and raid systems, it is now practical and cost effective to backup a large number of machines onto a server's local disk or network storage.
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BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.
OverviewīackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Unix, Linux, WinXX, and MacOSX PCs, desktops and laptops to a server's disk. This documentation describes BackupPC version 4.4.0, released on. CGI user interface configuration settings.
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