// 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. > > -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978