BackupPC and snapshots?

[John Abreau]

I currently use rsnapshot at work for my server backups. For
archiving, I had had
problems with how it did the weekly and monthly snapshots, and I ended up only
using rsnapshot for the daily snapshots. I use "cp -al" separately to
create the
weeky archives on Sundays, the monthlies on the last day of each month, and
the yearlies on Dec 31.

Currently our Windows users each use a OneTouch usb drive to do their backups,
and I'm looking for a better alternative that I can integrate with my
server backups.

BackupPC looks like a decent system for Windows backups, but their website
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?


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