From: <bac...@ko...> - 2013-03-01 02:20:15
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Zach Underwood wrote at about 18:27:29 -0500 on Thursday, February 28, 2013: > I have been using backuppc now for 3 weeks. I love the way it backups Linux > severs. I also like how easy it installs. But the windows backup just > sucks. Backuppc needs a real windows backup client. The windows client > should be the one that starts the backup. By doing this you can backup over > the internet. I wish I was a programmer so that I could help but I am just > a sysadmin. Well, saying something 'sucks' and 'wishing' are not the way to get open source developed... if you want something, you should seek to contribute whether with your own sweat labor or alternatively paying someone else to implement what you wish... I have written several thousand lines of code for BackupPC utilities and I am neither a programmer nor a sysadmin. I think I had one total computer programming course in my whole life and that was a summer school course 30 years ago... the point is if you want something, then dig in and contribute... In particular, I wanted to be able to back up all my windows machines using rsyncd with shadow mounts plus a full acl backup and I wanted all this to happen automatically. So, I wrote a 1000 line bash script (shadowmountrsync) and I learned a heck of a lot of bash programming nuggets along the way. It does what I need it to do. Michael Stowe did a similar thing to meet his needs -- perhaps he is a 'programmer', perhaps he isn't. If both of these 'suck', then since the scripts are GPL, you are free to improve upon them or start yourself from scratch. BTW, I will be releasing an updated version of shadowmountrsync soon which adds a few nice tweaks and fixes... |