[CentOS] Help with backups

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 15:51:20 UTC 2007


Ken Price wrote:
>>
>> What do people suggest?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Scott
> 
> Scott,
> 
> RSYNC!!!!!
> 
> For info:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
> Homepage:  http://rsync.samba.org/
> 
> Clients available for Win32 as well.  This is an easy, tried-and-true 
> method of backing up a workstation (or other servers) to a central 
> server.  RSYNC only copies over new/changed files, so you have a more 
> efficient backup.  You can also easily keep incremental backups.

Even better, use backuppc: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ which can 
use tar, smb, or rsync to perform the backups, then uses compression and 
hardlinking to eliminate duplication and keep about 10x the backup 
history that you'd expect in a given amount of space.  Plus it provides 
a nice web interface to browse backups and restore files.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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