[CentOS] backup to disk

Sun Mar 30 08:53:03 UTC 2008
Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie>

On Saturday 29 March 2008 18:54:38 Ray Leventhal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk.  My
> user data is all in /home.  I'm also interested in what folks are doing
> for things backing up os and configs.
>
> Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc would be appreciated.
> Pointers to good how-to's especially welcome.
>
> Currently we're using Arkeia Network Backup (commercial product with
> which I am in no way affiliated), and it's great, but with disk space so
> cheap, I'd love to be able to take my current non-raid setup and find a
> way to get up and running quickly in the case of some failures.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Ray

If you've got a Linux Server then lookup BackupPC on sourceforge and you'll 
never look back. Great bit of software.

Tony

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