On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 07:21 -0500, Chris Peikert wrote:
Can anyone suggest a good open source/free backup software that works on CentOS? I was reading through the manuals on how to back things up and it said do 1 of 2 things. Buy a 3rd party software packages or make one from source. Well I have no clue how to do the 2nd option and I don’t want to spend any money so I figured I would as you gurus. BTW I am newb so easier the software the better. Thanks.
I just built a package called backuppc for the testing CentOS repo. It requires a dedicated backup server that you run it on, and it can backup Linux/Unix/Mac machines via rsync or tar and Windows machines via samba.
The RPMs are just the start and it is a complicated setup but it is a good solution for backups:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2006-April/002216.html
Thanks, Johnny Hughes