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BackupPC and snapshots?



John Abreau wrote:
> leaves me with the impression that it just tries to preserve the
> current state of each
> PC, and doesn't bother maintaining weekly/monthly/yearly archives. At
> least I've
> found no indication of support for this.
> 
> The web interface and the aggressive deduplication sound intriguing, and if
> BackupPC could easily support weekly/monthly/yearly arciving, I'd be tempted
> to completely replace rsnapshot with BackupPC.
> 
> Has anyone used BackupPC in this manner?
> 
> 

No, I don't use it for snapshot archives. I use it just for 
the standard full and incremental backups for windows over 
smb and linux with rsync. The documentation is very good 
though and I recommend it.

Jim KR






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