[CentOS] Backup options.

Sharon Kimble

sharon04 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 4 16:20:31 UTC 2006


On 4/4/06, Barry Brimer <barry.brimer at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> Quoting Erin Fortenberry <Erin at Fortenberry.net>:
>
> > I am a long time FreeBSD user and have been using dump/restore for many
> > years for disk to disk backups.
> >
> > Now I am getting more and more into FC4 and CentOS, but am I stuck on
> only
> > using tar/star for backups?
> >
> > Tar in its various forms are fine for some items, like home directories,
> but
> > dump and restore in FreeBSD also gave me the possibility of easily doing
> a
> > bare metal restore.
> >
> > What are my options for command line only backups? What is everyone else
> > using?
> >
> > I do know about Bacula and Amanda... I don't know, maybe I have been
> using
> > FreeBSD for too long.
>
>
> Have you considered Arkeia? <http://www.arkeia.com> They offer Arkeia
> Light -
> which is free for very small installations.
>
> I've just checked and there doesn't seem to be an option for 'Arkeia
Light'. Their products now seem to be called 'Arkeia Network Backup' and
'Arkeia Smart Backup'. Perhaps your version is old and no longer in
production or maintained.

Sharon.
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