[CentOS] backup / compressed copy

Andreas Kuntzagk andreas.kuntzagk at mdc-berlin.de
Tue Dec 4 14:01:51 UTC 2007


> 
> Backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) will backup a number of 
> hosts, compressing all files and hardlinking all duplicates (whether 
> from different hosts or different backup runs) to reduce the storage 
> needed and permit keeping a longer history on line.  It also provides a 
> nice web interface for browsing, restoring, and archiving to tape. The 
> tape archive part is manual and kind of an afterthought but the rest is 
> completely automatic and some users have devised ways to use external 
> disks for the archive or do partition level copies to an external disk 
> for offsite storage.

Backuppc looks like to much for my problem. But somebody proposed just
using dump for this. To my shame I must confess I never used dump so
I'll be doing some man page reading now.

Andreas



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