On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 07:21 -0500, 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. > I just built a package called backuppc for the testing CentOS repo. It requires a dedicated backup server that you run it on, and it can backup Linux/Unix/Mac machines via rsync or tar and Windows machines via samba. The RPMs are just the start and it is a complicated setup but it is a good solution for backups: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2006-April/002216.html Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060418/5efe5ac8/attachment-0004.sig>