[CentOS] Simple backup program

Robin Mordasiewicz robin at mordasiewicz.com
Wed Jun 7 23:42:20 UTC 2006


On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>
>> Paul Heinlein wrote:
>>> 
>>> Bacula (www.bacula.org) will do what you want, though wading through
>>> the initial configuration process can take a couple hours. Tape
>>> spanning is well supported; backups can be scheduled or initiated from
>>> the command line; the cli restore process has an interface similar to
>>> dump/restore, so it's fairly easy to navigate.
>>> 
>>> We use it to back up CentOS, Debian, Gentoo, and OS X to tape.
>> 
>> Will the el3 rpms work with CentOS4?  Which rpms do I need?
>
> I've been rolling my own rpms, and they definitely aren't worthy of wider 
> distribution. :-(
>
> If you're willing to work with a slightly older Bacula release (1.36.x), I 
> suspect Karanbir Singh's will work just fine. Just search for 'bacula' at 
> centos.karan.org.
>
> Otherwise, I'd download latest SRPM and rebuild it on your platform(s) of 
> choice:
>
>  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/bacula/bacula-1.38.9-2.src.rpm?download
>
I vouch for bacula



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