On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 09:43, Erin Fortenberry wrote:
I am a long time FreeBSD user and have been using dump/restore for many years for disk to disk backups.
Now I am getting more and more into FC4 and CentOS, but am I stuck on only using tar/star for backups?
Tar in its various forms are fine for some items, like home directories, but dump and restore in FreeBSD also gave me the possibility of easily doing a bare metal restore.
What are my options for command line only backups? What is everyone else using?
I do know about Bacula and Amanda... I don't know, maybe I have been using FreeBSD for too long.
If you want on-line disk storage, look at backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/). It uses compression and pooling of duplicates to keep much more online than you would expect and has a nice web interface for browsing backups and doing restores. It doesn't do bare metal restores by itself, but it can give you a tar image that can be installed through your install disk booted in rescue mode or one of the live CDs like knoppix.