Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:31 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, and here is what I found :
- amanda
- bacula
- BackupPC
- FreeNAS
You missed rsync.
Rsync is another one-off approach where you have to roll your own commands per target. Backuppc can use rsync as the transport, collating all the results into one centrally managed archive with a web interface that makes it easier to set up than rsync itself. Plus it will compress the data and pool all identical content so you can keep much more history online than you would expect.
I use backuppc, but find that in order to restore one has to be or know the admin user password. There appears to be no way to open this up to users to directly see and restore from the file tree that it manages.....