Using backuppc Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by lewashby … here -> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/BackupPC-4.0.0alpha3_doc.html#BackupPC-Introduction on setting up backuppc but my head is … in house desktop and media server (the sources) using backuppc, to the RP2+HDD (destination). Is this possible? …HDD via the USB connection and then change the backuppc configuration after moving the PI2 off site or … Re: Using backuppc Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by lewashby Thanks. backuppc was actually recommended to me by another very experienced Linux … I'll be keeping the pi2 + hdd. So why would backuppc be a bad choice? When I told the other guy… would be better so he recommended I use backuppc, he then told be that backuppc uses rsync which did confuse me a… Re: Using backuppc Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by rubberman … the backup file system. Finally, DO NOT USE anything like backuppc - use standard Linux tools such as rsync, cp, dd, etc… Re: Using backuppc Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by rubberman Sounds like backuppc is a more friendly front-end to rsync. Sorry, but I have never used it and it doesn't appear in any of my CentOS 6.7 repositories (standard + epel + rpmforge). Re: Using backuppc Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by rereus If you want uservfriendly frontend you can use grsync. It has the most interesting options. Re: hard drive options for a raspberry pi 2 backup server Hardware and Software Hardware by lewashby … What I want to do now is to use backuppc to backup my Debian media server and my Mint …this? Also, I was just looking the the backuppc directory /etc/backuppc and I seem to have found an infinate …directories. Could someone please explain. garrett@mint-desktop /etc/backuppc/pc $ ls apache.conf config.pl hosts htpasswd localhost.… hard drive options for a raspberry pi 2 backup server Hardware and Software Hardware by lewashby … the drive up again? I think I'll be using `backuppc` or is it `pcbackup`, to perform these backups, will the… RP 2 see `backuppc` trying to connect and then spin up the drives? Thanks… Re: hard drive options for a raspberry pi 2 backup server Hardware and Software Hardware by lewashby I have been trying to learn to program for years. I've played around with C, C++, Python, & PHP but I would not dare call myself a programmer. I want to setup a remote server with lots for storate, I figured that Raspberry Pi 2 + hard drives would be a cheap way of achieving this goal, and I've heard good things about backuppc from Linux users. Re: hard drive options for a raspberry pi 2 backup server Hardware and Software Hardware by lewashby I haven't used it yet but as of right now I'm still planning on using backuppc. I have many TBs to backup most of that up locally before deploying the server outside my home network. Then I'll only be backing up the difference when I run my backups. Re: hard drive options for a raspberry pi 2 backup server Hardware and Software Hardware by uncobeth I used to use BackupPC a lot, some years back. It was pretty good -- easy … Re: hard drive options for a raspberry pi 2 backup server Hardware and Software Hardware by overwraith Do you know much programming? Reason I ask is that if you intend to code your own 'server' software, you could implement a journaling type setup for your hard drive. You could do this with application code, doing so just requires some interesting interfaces etc. First found out about the template from mongo db, acutally had a nice little diagram. … Re: hard drive options for a raspberry pi 2 backup server Hardware and Software Hardware by overwraith Well, congrats you picked all the hard ones to learn. JK. I think OOP is a much better way to go most of the time. It seems easier to think of things as objects. Also be aware that the PI doesn't have much bandwidth. Which should be fine for a file server application. If you wanted to throw together an ftp server, that would probably require a lot … Re: hard drive options for a raspberry pi 2 backup server Hardware and Software Hardware by JeoSaurus It sounds like you already have the Pi, but I got a cubieboard for this purpose because it has an actual SATA port. I've got a 1TB 2.5" drive, powered through the cubieboard (Just make sure your power supply is at least 2amps or better!).