On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Mauricio Tavares raubvogel@gmail.com wrote:
There are a lot of people who like Amanda, but it might be a bit more time consuming to setup properly
Amanda is sort-of tuned to work with tapes with the unique feature of being able to pre-estimate the sizes of full and incremental runs and pick the right mix across a set of hosts each day to fill a tape. If you don't need that feature it probably won't be your first choice.
The most unique thing about backuppc is that it has its own implementation of rsync that can work with the compressed archive files on the server and a stock remote rsync version accessing the target files. Or, it can use tar or samba to transfer the files, with all duplicate files pooled regardless of the location or transfer method. And it has a nice web interface for configuration/browsing/restores.