A couple of quick tips: Since BackupPC doesn't do full system recovery, there's no point in having to backup gigabytes of data, even with the nifty pooling feature. When you have that many machines, it becomes a horrible waste of time, not to mention the nightmare of browsing through 10,000+ files looking for something from 2 years ago.
If you don't have NAS available, get people in the habit of storing important files in expected places on the local machines. Explain that it will NOT be backed up unless they put it in a particular place. That's usually enough motivation to get them to quit storing files in random places. In Linux, use home dirs, /usr/local, etc. We also backup /etc for system critical files & configuration, and I usually throw in /var/spool to catch email & cronjobs. We use xCat + kickstart + custom postscripts for our Linux installs, which means any box can be imaged, configured and ready in less than 10 minutes. Restoring critical data from BackupPC becomes easy from that point. On Windows, use the My Documents folder. You can also schedule dumps of important registry keys, and save them to a folder that will be backed up. Reimaging is fairly easy using Acronis, Ghost, or whatever you like. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Pettitt Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 4:44 PM To: backuppc-users Subject: [BackupPC-users] Large deployment questions We're considering using BackupPC at work (~50 desktops, mixed OSX, Windows, Linux growing to over 100 machines within 6 months) - I've been using it at home (Win, OSX, FreeBSD) for over a year and I'm really happy with it. Anyway the point of this post .... Does anybody have any advice on best practices for larger deployments? What do you backup on each desktop? (at home I backup everything) We're thinking rsync over ssh for the OSX and Linux boxes and smb for Windows - good plan? Any reason not to start with 3.00 beta2 What issue going to bite us unexpectedly? John Pettitt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDE V _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ The information in this electronic mail message is sender's business Confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this Internet electronic mail message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. The sender believes that this E-mail and any attachments were free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and/or malicious code when sent. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. By reading the message and opening any attachments, the recipient accepts full responsibility for taking protective and remedial action about viruses and other defects. Travelport Inc. is not liable for any loss or damage arising in any way from this message or its attachments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
