[BBLISA-announce] September meeting - BackupPC not just for desktops

[John P. Rouillard]

Hello all:

For those of you who missed Peter aNeutrino (LizardFS.org) lively talk
on "Is the MooseFS distributed filesystem in your future?", the slides
will be available on the bblisa website in the next week or so.

Our next talk will be on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 in MIT E-51, Room 145.

Speaker: John Rouillard (yeah that one)
Topic: BackupPC it's not just for desktops

Description:
Six years ago I embarked on a search for a new backup system for
work. This talk will start by discussing the requirements and
evaluation process for the backup system.  This will be followed by a
tour of BackupPC and a discussion of how BackupPC is used to: backup
multi TB live databases, handle off site backups, handle bandwidth
limitation requirements for backing up sites scattered across the
internet, how compression and file de-duplication works to improve
backup capacity (fitting 52T of source data into 3.7T of backup
space). The talk will close with methods used for testing the
integrity of backups and restoring backups.

Speaker Bio:

John Rouillard's first computer experience was on PDP 11/44 running
BSD unix in 1977. After a couple of years of programming, he graduated
to system administration. He has authored papers on configuration
management tools, software management and real time log analysis. His
current interest is improving system administration processes by
incorporating best practices and standard skills from other
disciplines to solve issues in system administration.

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				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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