[CentOS] Help with backups

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Mon Aug 20 15:52:24 UTC 2007


--On Monday, August 20, 2007 10:51 AM -0500 Les Mikesell 
<lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Even better, use backuppc: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ which can use
> tar, smb, or rsync to perform the backups, then uses compression and
> hardlinking to eliminate duplication and keep about 10x the backup
> history that you'd expect in a given amount of space.  Plus it provides a
> nice web interface to browse backups and restore files.

Another possibility is Bacula, which has native clients for other OS's that 
can back up their metadata. BackupPC only knows how to back up Linux 
metadata.





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