I was a bit surprised to find that BackupPC does not seem to be available on my CentOS-5.2 system.
What do people use to backup Centos systems?
On 2008-09-29 14:26, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I was a bit surprised to find that BackupPC does not seem to be available on my CentOS-5.2 system.
What do people use to backup Centos systems?
Actually BackupPC does run on CentOS without any problem. I use BackupPC hosted on a CentOS 5.2 server to backup some Windows laptops.
On the other hand the Unix machines, including the CentOS machines, while they could be served by a BackupPC server as well, I do those backups using Amanda, mostly because that is what I used for more than 8 years now, and because we need tapes as well.
Amanda never left me in the cold, even after terrible hard disk crashes or operator mistakes.
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I was a bit surprised to find that BackupPC does not seem to be available on my CentOS-5.2 system.
What do people use to backup Centos systems?
Rdiff maybe?
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I was a bit surprised to find that BackupPC does not seem to be available on my CentOS-5.2 system.
What do people use to backup Centos systems?
you can use rsync which uses ssh but is faster than scp because it only transfers the change between two files.
partha chowdhury wrote:
I was a bit surprised to find that BackupPC does not seem to be available on my CentOS-5.2 system.
What do people use to backup Centos systems?
you can use rsync which uses ssh but is faster than scp because it only transfers the change between two files.
Rsync is one of the options that backuppc can use for the transport. There should be a packaged backuppc in the centos testing repo, but it isn't hard to install from source.
On Monday, September 29, 2008 1:26 PM +0100 Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
I was a bit surprised to find that BackupPC does not seem to be available on my CentOS-5.2 system.
I got it from the testing repo. I use it to back up Windows servers to my Linux server.
What do people use to backup Centos systems?
To back up the Linux server, I use dump and direct the output to a file on a removable USB drive formatted as ext3. I rotate drives the way one might rotate tapes.
I've been using dump since 1989, when I had a Sun 386i.
Both BackupPC and dump have their own support infrastructure.
http://dump.sourceforge.net/ http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
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