====== BackupPC appliance ======
Nobody wants backup. Everybody wants restore...

[[http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/|BackupPC]] is a nice "to-disk" backup solution with a convenient web frontend. Restores are easy, even for those in my household who do not tame computers for a living.

I recently bought a Longshine LCS-8311 NAS device for the sole purpose to make it a BackupPC-appliance. The original firmware was some kind of linux, but lasted only some minutes until my serial console cable was ready. There is a project called [[http://www.opennas.info|OpenNAS]] using similar hardware, which has detailed information about flashing new firmware into this device.

Required tools:
  * thttpd
  * samba
  * perl
  * File::RsyncP
  * compress::Zlib
  * coreutils (su)
  * iputils (ping)

File::RsyncP make test complains about some failing bitshifts, despite of having off_t already at a size of 8. Needs to be fixed... **FIXME**

RsyncClientCmd:
  /bin/ssh -i /home/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa.db -l backuppc $host sudo $rsyncPath $argList+

Backup is SLOW. But OTOH the load on the client is negligble.