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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com