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My biggest frustrations with other systems (such as amanda) included non-graceful recovery from a backup failure, incomprehensible configuration, poor handling of limited disk space, non-versioned backups, and backup formats that made recovering individual backups painful.
Some time ago, I got frustrated, and wrote a disk-to-disk, versioned backup system with PHP. Combined with Samba, it can back up Windows hosts by mounting them on the local filesystem.
http://www.effortlessis.com/backupbuddy/
It scratches my particular itch and works with virtually no further attention on my part, but lets me know if there's a problem. I hope you find this useful.
-Ben
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 05:21, 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.