__RELEASEDATE__
- Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Craig Barratt. All rights reserved.
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Craig Barratt. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
recommended (smbclient's tar feature in 2.0.7 has bugs for certain
path lengths). See www.samba.org for source and binaries.
+If you use rsync you will need File::RsyncP on SourceForge or www.cpan.org,
+plus rsync 2.5.6 on the client machines.
+
To install BackupPC run these commands as root:
tar zxf BackupPC-__VERSION__.tar.gz
perl configure.pl
This will automatically determine some system information and prompt you
-for install paths.
+for install paths. Do "perldoc configure.pl" to see the various options
+that configure.pl provides.
INTRODUCTION:
------------
-BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for
-backing up Linux and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server's disk.
+BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing
+up Linux, WinXX, and MacOS PCs and laptops to a server's disk.
BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.
Given the ever decreasing cost of disks and raid systems, it is now
backing up the server to tape. A variety of Open Source systems are
available for doing backup to tape.
-BackupPC is written in Perl and extracts backup data either via
-SMB (using Samba) or tar over ssh/rsh/nfs. It is robust, reliable,
-well documented and freely available as Open Source on SourceForge.
+BackupPC is written in Perl and extracts backup data via SMB (using Samba),
+rsync, or tar over ssh/rsh/nfs. It is robust, reliable, well documented
+and freely available as Open Source on SourceForge.
FEATURES:
--------
only 150GB is needed.
- No client-side software is needed. The standard smb protocol is used
- to extract backup data on WinXX clients. On linux clients, tar
- over ssh/rsh/nfs is used to backup the data (or alternatively
- Samba can be installed on the linux client to provide smb shares).
+ to extract backup data on WinXX clients. On *nix clients, either rsync
+ or tar over ssh/rsh/nfs is used to backup the data. Various alternatives
+ are possible: rsync can also be used with WinXX by running rsyncd/cygwin.
+ Similarly, smb could be used to backup *nix file systems if they are
+ exported as smb shares.
- A powerful http/cgi user interface allows administrators to view log
files, configuration, current status and allows users to initiate and
any backup directly from the CGI interface. Zip or Tar archives
for selected files or directories from any backup can also be
downloaded from the CGI interface. Finally, direct restore to
- the client machine (using SMB or tar) for selected files or
- directories is also supported from the CGI interface.
+ the client machine (using SMB, rsync or tar) for selected files
+ or directories is also supported from the CGI interface.
- Supports mobile environments where laptops are only intermittently
connected to the network and have dynamic IP addresses (DHCP).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/backuppc
-You are encouraged to subscribe to either the backuppc-announce
-or backuppc-users mail list on sourceforge.net at either:
+You are encouraged to subscribe to any of the mail lists available
+on sourceforge.net:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-announce
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
+ http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-devel
The backuppc-announce list is moderated and is used only for
important announcements (eg: new versions). It is low traffic.
-You only need to subscribe to one list: backuppc-users also
-receives any messages on backuppc-announce.
+You only need to subscribe to one of users and announce: backuppc-users
+also receives any messages on backuppc-announce.
+
+The backuppc-devel list is only for developers who are working on BackupPC.
+Do not post questions or support requests there. But detailed technical
+discussions should happen on this list.
To post a message to the backuppc-users list, send an email to
projects / BackupPC.git / blobdiff