-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:57 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server

On 1/13/2010 9:08 AM, Gabriel Rosca wrote:

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My google searches would have me believe that Amanda is the more popular choice for backup on linux. On this list it seems Backuppc is. Strange... ;-)

Amanda is good for tape, and has a nice feature of being able to estimate the sizes of full and incremental runs ahead of time and make adjustments to make them all fit on the available tape. It can save to disk but doesn't do any pooling. Backuppc is mostly designed for online backups. It can archive tar images out to tape but it's an afterthought and not great at it. Both are pretty much 'set up and forget' programs although with amanda you do have to swap the tape every day.

Aha! Online backups is what we use otherwise for Windows here. Seems like Backuppc is really the way to here. Thanks!

FWIW, we used tapes a handful of years back but it was just too much data to transfer, and there was no budget to get an eight-tape-robot, so we opted for an online homebrew hd-based solution. That has worked ever since. I'm very happy with that.