On 2/12/11 6:54 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
OTOH, for mere backup using rsync and ssh might work even better and be somewhat simplier.
except that provides no point in time restoration ability.
I prefer backup schemes that use dump/restore to do occasional full and regular incremental backups, and for these, NFS is quite useful.
rsnapshot is a perl script wrapper for rsync.
So is backuppc (plus it can also use use tar, smb, or ftp to collect the files).
Works *beautifully* to provide hardlinked temporal snapshot repositories, I've used it effectively for years.
Backuppc can compress the files and also pools all duplicate content with hardlinks even if found on different machines. And it provides a nice web interface to browse and restore backups either by downloading through the browser or copying back to the source machine. The web interface can restrict the view of a user to only certain machines so users can do their own restores and control the configuration for their own machines.