On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:49:22AM -0500, Nate Carlson wrote:
> Check out BackupPC: http://backuppc.sf.net
> 
> It uses rsync-over-ssh to backup the files, and does nifty things like 
> hardlinking identical files to save space. IE, on my personal BackupPC 
> server:
> 
> Sizes before pooling (linking) and compression:
> 30 full backups, 114.87gb
> 112 incr backups, 118.09gb
> 
> Total actual disk space used: 42.63gb.

Nate, thanks for that post.  I've been using rsnapshot for a few weeks
now and I've been really happy with it.  But, it has some big
limitations, like no compression.  BackupPC looks like a great app, i'm
gonna check it out today, 

dan