From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 11 02:21:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF7DC16A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 02:21:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fusion.vilot.net (vilot.com [64.246.32.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 732A243D39 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 02:21:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tom@vilot.com) Received: from [192.168.1.104] (c-24-8-184-241.client.comcast.net [24.8.184.241]) (authenticated bits=0) by fusion.vilot.net (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j0B2IYkO048633; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:18:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tom@vilot.com) Message-ID: <41E33834.4000305@vilot.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:21:40 -0700 From: Tom Vilot User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041222) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dave References: <000301c4f75e$550390a0$0400a8c0@satellite> In-Reply-To: <000301c4f75e$550390a0$0400a8c0@satellite> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BackupPC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 02:21:44 -0000 dave wrote: >Hello, > Do you know if there's a port of BackupPC for FreeBSD? I'm looking for a >backup solution for multiple platforms centering on a FreeBSD server. I've >encountered BackupPC and Bacula, both look promising, primary backups are >initially automated to disk then possibly later on to removable media such >as DVD. > Can I ask why a custom-written script (using rsync) in conjunction with mount_smbfs wouldn't be sufficient?