Re: [rdiff-backup-users] NFS question

[Keith Edmunds]

tech1 wrote:
> If I use NFS to mount each server to be backed up 
> to the backup server, will that work.

NFS has issues of its own (unrelated to rdiff-backup), but there's no 
reason I know of for this not to work in principle. For any backup 
methodology you need to:

 - check the status of the backup when it ends
 - test restoring files / directories / entire servers from backup

If you do those two thing then you should be reasonably safe. If you 
don't then don't be surprised when you find out the backups are not as 
usable as you'd hoped.

> If someone has another way to
> do it (without installing rdiff on each machine) please let me 
> know.

I don't understand - and you don't explain - your reluctance to install 
rdiff-backup on each client. Most distributions have it packaged so it 
takes very little time. I would be reluctant to export all data from a 
server via NFS simply to facilitate backups, but that's me. You know 
your data and security considerations and are thus best placed to 
determine the backup philosophy.

> Also I am looking for a GUI  or web 
> interface to use with it. I found this one:
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/rdiffbackupweb/

There's been talk over the years of such an interface being available, 
and I believe that there is one other as well. However, I've never used 
any of them so I can't comment. rdiff-backup is pretty easy to drive 
from the command line. Who are you aiming the web interface at: system 
administrators or end users?