I like to backup round-robin: A>B, B>C, C>A
instead of A>D, B>D, C>D
which saves me a PC.
This means (I guess) I have to have Client and Server on each PC.
I like to backup round-robin: A>B, B>C, C>A
instead of A>D, B>D, C>D
which saves me a PC.
This means (I guess) I have to have Client and Server on each PC.
Depends on what is being backed up: files or images? including urbackup server in the image? The latter will like cause sync issues on restore.
Might work if it is purely files on each pc - think you would need separate ports for each urbackup server. It means you need to configure and maintain 3 servers though.
Urbackup is a fairly complex piece of software because it is client server. In my view it is probably not worth the effort given how easy it is to setup a dedicated backup pc.
Hi,
Aside from the excessive complexity you’d be adding (as per @GilesP mentioning needing to maintain three server instances) it would mean a few other things:
Am sure there could be a few “use case” scenarios when having multiple UrBackup hosts can make sense, just that I don’t see it for what you are indicating as just trying to save a bit of money…
First it would be files, not images. Mostly pictures, bookmarks and a small amount of documents.
Round Robin is definitely out.
I have 2 win10 PC’s and a plethora of XP boxes from a neural network project I started 20 years ago. Also some Vista, Me and 7 in there too.
Would it be feasible to use any of this older stuff as a server?
Would probably be an option to use one of the old bits as the UrBackup server, though you’re probably going to be best off to have it running a Linux version with the GUI off to save resource requirements…