October 23, 200916 yr Anyone use BackupPC or know the difficultly in getting it up an running on UnRaid? My brother has it running on his dedicated backup server and I have it backup my UnRaid to his place for my offsite backup plan, but I'm thinking I may want to have my own BackupPC running to backup my PCs in the house. Just curious as to an experts opinion on the difficulty in getting this setup and running on UnRaid. thanks, dave P.S. - I've had really good results with BackupPC and even my kids have been able to restore their lost homework using the web interface.
October 23, 200916 yr Anyone use BackupPC or know the difficultly in getting it up an running on UnRaid? My brother has it running on his dedicated backup server and I have it backup my UnRaid to his place for my offsite backup plan, but I'm thinking I may want to have my own BackupPC running to backup my PCs in the house. Just curious as to an experts opinion on the difficulty in getting this setup and running on UnRaid. thanks, dave P.S. - I've had really good results with BackupPC and even my kids have been able to restore their lost homework using the web interface. I run it on a dedicated server. As for unraid..hmm... No reason why not I guess. http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Install_Backuppc_with_Lighttpd Has instructions for installing against lighttpd - which alongside unweb might be quite straightforward. Guide is heavily bias towards debian and there are a lot of dependencies which might be tricky though. One thing I will say is I've found backuppc, assuming you have a reasonably sized backup pool, to be massively i/o and memory intensive - particularly when its pruning old backups / going through data as part of it's dedupe process. Running this on unraid (assuming parity protection) might be interesting given it absolutely batters my other server which is a dual core, 4 gig machine with a 'normal' sata disk (ie no parity write to worry about!). Would definately be interested in finding out though.... Asde from that I 100% agree it is a very good program.
October 23, 200916 yr wow, I like this program/concept. It has allot of potential. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BackupPC Set up a windows rsync server and you're good to go. http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/3-ways-to-setup-rsync-server-on-windows/ http://www.itefix.no/i2/node/10650 as far as the lighthttpd.. unraidweb would probably be the solution for that.
October 23, 200916 yr Author I've had it working flawlessly for me for the last couple years. No complaints at all from me.
October 28, 200916 yr Just want to add my vote for some sort of implementation in unRAID. I'm currently reevaluating my backup plan now that I have unRAID online. rsync seemed like a great choice but I want multiple "snapshot" type backups available from my Windows 7 machine and I'm not the strongest coder.
October 28, 200916 yr Just want to add my vote for some sort of implementation in unRAID. I'm currently reevaluating my backup plan now that I have unRAID online. rsync seemed like a great choice but I want multiple "snapshot" type backups available from my Windows 7 machine and I'm not the strongest coder. There is a way to have multiple snapshots using rsync and link-dest parameters. This allows you to only rsync over files that have changed. I have a working script, but no purging logic yet. right now it requires unRAID be the one initiating the rsync so it can find the last backup and use the --link-dest= with the directory of the last backup. This links any files that have not changed from the last backup into the current directory. Then rsync's over any files that are different from the last backup. Each directory is a full snapshot of the current state as of that rsync with any duplicates linked to one another to save space. Caveats are.. if you change a linked file by editing it locally on unRAID, it will change all of them. Also you would need to load rsync in daemon mode on the windows machine (I posted a link somewhere). It's not elegant, but it;s a simple way of rsyncing a snapshot.
October 28, 200916 yr I'd definitely be interested in taking a peek at how you set that up if you are willing. I'd like to start "mirroring" my photos drive (currently about 400GB) onto my unRAID server with the ability to rollback any changes for a certain period of time (probably just a couple weeks worth of daily snapshots). I can usually figure things out if pointed in the right direction. I do love a challenge (Next step is to allow family members to back-up some of their data to the server as well)
October 28, 200916 yr I just started a google code project for my authored files. I uploaded my rsync script. If there is anything else pertaining to the use of rsync with unRAID please start another thread. http://code.google.com/p/unraid-weebotech/downloads/list
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