[CentOS] Backing up CentOS

[Benjamin Smith]

// shameless plug follows // 

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.
> 
> 

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