[CentOS] Help with backups
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 16:11:56 UTC 2007
Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Monday, August 20, 2007 10:51 AM -0500 Les Mikesell
> <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Another possibility is Bacula, which has native clients for other OS's
> that can back up their metadata. BackupPC only knows how to back up
> Linux metadata.
Yes, unfortunately you have to choose between being able to keep much
more history online with no need to install a client agent and being
able to save windows metadata. Bacula also has better integration for
tape archiving. Backuppc can write to tapes but it is sort of an
afterthought.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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