Hi Everyone,
Sorry i missed the meeting Thursday a Xerox guy turned up late then i
couldn't get him to leave :(
Can everyone look over
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Backup and
provide some feedback here so that we can get some traction moving forward.
Some issues not covered in the wiki are how each would be implemented. i know
rdiff-backup and i assume backuppc would need to be ran by a user who has
sufficient privileges on each machine to read whats needed to be backed up.
what does this mean?
Well in the case of rdiff-backup it could be run centrally as a cron job but
the user that gets connected to at the other end needs to be able to read
everything or it could be decentralised and run as a cron job for root on
each box being backed up. it could then send the data to the backup server
as a user with no privileges.
bacula avoids this by running a daemon on each host. If there is still
people wanting to use bacula I will finish and submit the bacula package I
started on for extras so we can get a review of it rolling. If there is
demand for backuppc then I can start packaging it or someone else can if
they want.
But please provide some feedback or I will make a decision myself.
Regards
Dennis