> It might be interesting to build a BackupPC "appliance" using a Linksys > NSLU2. It's a Linux computer about the size of a paperback book [ ... ] I am currently working on getting this box up and running with BackupPc. For testing purposes I used the NSLU2 loaded with the debian Etch distro. (See http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/unpack.html which is a very good HowTo) Attached is a 2.5" 40GB Harddisk on port 2 (See discussion on http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Unslung/WhichUSBPortforUnslung6)
So far I got it working with version 2.1.2 of BackupPc. Version 3 failed to install because of a requirement for RsyncP 0.68. I was unable to install that version because of difficulties with make and cc. Tests with version 2 resultet in the follwing findings: - Perfomance is slow (what did you expect?) - Compression is a NoNo. Forget about it in this box - I did only test rsync backup with windows clients - Xfer rate is about 600KByte on a 100MB LAN More tests will follow. Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
