While BackupPC with it’s web interface is certainly a nice thing to have it imposes a few problems if you want to use it to backup your system. Bare metal restores are more tricky, because files are stored in a proprietary format. Hence you will need to set up BackupPC before you can restore your system, something that is not …
Mac OS X TimeMachine Backups on a Linux Server
With Mac OS X 10.5 Apple introduced it’s first backup solution for the rest of us. Most other programs I’ve used were either too complicated, too unreliable or a combination of the two or just to plain expensive. TimeMachine aims to solve all of that. In the past I’ve used anything from plain copies via the Finder to Retrospect, Archiware …