[SoCoSA/discuss] Meeting Today (Tuesday October 6th)

[Kevan Benson]

If you are responsible for maintaining workstations or servers, BackupPC 
has the capability to drastically reduce the cost and time requires to 
do comprehensive backups, so please come see what it has to offer!


Day: Tuesday October 6th
Time: 7pm for speaker, doors open at 6, be there by 6:10 for food order
Location: O'Reilly Media, Tarsier Room (behind the big metal tarsier)
                1005 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol; http://xrl.us/u6vz
Topic: BackupPC backup software
Speaker: Kevan Benson
Event Page: http://socosa.org/node/959

This month at SoCoSA we'll be covering BackupPC, a popular and very full
featured open source backup system. BackupPC supports backup through
SMB, tar/gz over SSH or NFS, or rsync. The killer feature of BackupPC is
file pooling, which allows identical files from different backups, or
even different systems, to take up only the space of a single file on
the backup server. This allows moderately priced backup servers to
vastly increase the number of system they can backup, the retention
period of backups, or both.

-Kevan Benson
-SoCoSA.org