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BackupPC and Macs

By jeltsch on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 22:10

I myself have been using the backup software BackupPC for almost a decade, and I started to backup our lab computers to a central backup server about two years ago. BackupPC supports deduplication and therefore much data can be stored on a couple of 2 TB drives.

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Disk dumps (dd) and copying over the network (netcat)

By jeltsch on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 19:33

On the receiving machine (disk sda MUST be unmounted, e.g. by booting from a live CD or USB stick):
netcat -l -p 4778 | dd of=/dev/sda

On the sending machine (disk sdb MUST be unmounted, e.g. by booting from a live CD or USB stick):
dd if=/dev/sdb | netcat 192.168.0.4 4778

(-l listen; -p port)

tar copying via ssh

By jeltsch on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 05:29

tar czv sourcepath | ssh -l username 192.168.0.5 tar xz -C targetpath

BackupPC and Macs

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