[ale] seeking backup with versioning

[PairOfTwins]

Brian:

Looks like rdiff-backup or Bacula would be my best bets.  Guess I could 
use either with my distro of choice.   I'm feeling better now.

Tom
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Brian Pitts wrote:
> On 10/28/2009 02:44 PM, PairOfTwins wrote:
>
>   
>> In searching ale.org, I see ext4 in discussions of versioning.  I've 
>> been asked (finally) to replace a Win2K server, which houses the 
>> database for 7 Windoze workstations.  Since the office manager just lost 
>> 6 weeks of Outlook emails when the pst file was corrupted AND the copy 
>> done by nightly backup was also corrupted ---- keeping prior versions is 
>> a basic requirement.
>>
>> eBox uses rdiff-backup
>> ClearOS I can't determine
>> FreeNAS I can't determine
>> Ubuntu Server uses BackupPC or Bacula
>>
>> As an Ubuntu user, I'm most comfortable with deb distros.  Anyone have a 
>> suggestion of a server distro with suitable backup built in, or shall I 
>> use Ubuntu server?
>>
>>     
>
> For pst files or access database files, rdiff-backup sounds perfect. You
> don't want to make a second 100MB copy of the file when 1MB changes. It
> looks like there are various frontends to make configuring your backups
> easier [0] and that you can even run it on the office manager's Windows
> computer and have it back up his or her outlook files to the linux server.
>
> [0] http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/related.html
> [1] http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/FAQ.html#windows
>
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