[CentOS] Help with backups

Mon Aug 20 16:11:56 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

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