[CentOS] backup server..

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Sep 14 15:02:26 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 17:14 +1000, Sebastien Tremblay wrote:
>  
> 
> > * In regards to nightly incremental backups, we simply use the 
> > rsync utility to pull the backups from a server onto the backup 
> > host also running linux
> 
> You're actually not the first to mention rsync, I'll man rsync and see
> what I can get!

You might also like backuppc: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/.  It
can use ssh and rsync (or tar or smb...) to back up remote machines
and it uses a scheme with compression and hard links of duplicates
to greatly increase the amount of data it can keep on line in
a given amount of space.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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