Hi.
I am looking for workstation/laptop backup solution for our organization
with many offices. My idea is that I'll set up separate box in every
office and that box would backup workstations and laptops originating
from that office.
We are already using Bacula for our servers backups and with that I have
extensive experience, but unfortunately the laptop/roadwarrior support
in there is quite limited.
I've done some research on several aspects of BackupPC, but before
digging very deep into actual testing, I'd like to confirm my moving
direction with you all :)
Here are my questions:
- If we will start testing BackupPC, shall we start with 4.0 (even
though it's alpha), so that we wouldn't have any migration pains afterwards?
- Does 4.0 have client-side deduplication? From documentation it seems
that " The use of rsync --checksum allows BackupPC to guess a potential
match anywhere in the pool, even on a first-time backup" could mean that?
- I see using rsync on Windows as the most reasonable option:
-- Is there still no BackupPC client for Windows?
-- Would http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/ work with 4.0? How
"official" is that client?
-- It seems that rsync on Windows is easiest to use through DeltaCopy,
especially for many clients. Am I on correct track on this?
-- The only possibility to encrypt files on client is through
Rsyncrypto? I guess this very much eliminates deduplication, but for
individual users/folders it's not a problem. Any other limits that will
become relevant with Rsyncrypto?
I'm very grateful for any feedback on these points.
Thanks in advance!
--
Silver
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