X-Git-Url: http://git.rot13.org/?p=BackupPC.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc-src%2FBackupPC.pod;h=c87b31e53ac9daa80e023b39f9594b4b6c77aeaf;hp=59af0879cba0c4563a1222c4e238608d11cbdbf8;hb=9175f9157f0d54b50ebf11d2036c20f50ffc6d9d;hpb=d367eab2497fd9d7510c8b831651c1f0f0c41c06;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc-src/BackupPC.pod b/doc-src/BackupPC.pod index 59af087..c87b31e 100644 --- a/doc-src/BackupPC.pod +++ b/doc-src/BackupPC.pod @@ -151,13 +151,6 @@ on increasingly better RAID systems. At other sites a secondary tape backup will be required. This tape backup can be done perhaps weekly from the BackupPC pool file system. -One comment: in the US in particular, permanent backups of things like -email are becoming strongly discouraged by lawyers because of discovery -prior to possible litigation. Using BackupPC without tape backup allows -recent file changes or losses to be restored, but without keeping a -history more than a month or two old (although this doesn't avoid the -problem of old emails languishing in user's email folders forever). - =back =head2 Resources @@ -184,20 +177,25 @@ This page has links to the current releases of BackupPC. =item Mail lists -Two BackupPC mailing lists exist for announcements (backuppc-announce) -and reporting information, asking questions, discussing development or -any other topic relevant to BackupPC (backuppc-users). +Three BackupPC mailing lists exist for announcements (backuppc-announce), +developers (backuppc-devel), and a general user list for support, asking +questions or any other topic relevant to BackupPC (backuppc-users). -You are encouraged to subscribe to either the backuppc-announce -or backuppc-users mail list on sourceforge.net at either: +You can subscribe to these lists by visiting: 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 backuppc-announce and +backuppc-users: 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 @@ -208,7 +206,7 @@ Do not send subscription requests to this address! =item Other Programs of Interest If you want to mirror linux or unix files or directories to a remote server -you should consider rsync, L. BackupPC uses +you should consider rsync, L. BackupPC now uses rsync as a transport mechanism; if you are already an rsync user you can think of BackupPC as adding efficient storage (compression and pooling) and a convenient user interface to rsync. @@ -216,13 +214,23 @@ pooling) and a convenient user interface to rsync. Unison is a utility that can do two-way, interactive, synchronization. See L. -Two popular open source packages that do tape backup are -Amanda (L) and -afbackup (L). +Three popular open source packages that do tape backup are +Amanda (L), +afbackup (L), and +Bacula (L). Amanda can also backup WinXX machines to tape using samba. These packages can be used as back ends to BackupPC to backup the BackupPC server data to tape. +Various programs and scripts use rsync to provide hardlinked backups. +See, for example, Mike Rubel's site (L), +J. W. Schultz's dirvish (L), +and John Bowman's rlbackup (L). +BackupPC provides many additional features, such as compressed storage, +hardlinking any matching files (rather than just files with the same name), +and storing special files without root priviliges. But these other scripts +provide simple and effective solutions and are worthy of consideration. + =back =head2 Road map