On Monday, September 29, 2008 1:26 PM +0100 Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote: > I was a bit surprised to find that BackupPC > does not seem to be available on my CentOS-5.2 system. I got it from the testing repo. I use it to back up Windows servers to my Linux server. > What do people use to backup Centos systems? To back up the Linux server, I use dump and direct the output to a file on a removable USB drive formatted as ext3. I rotate drives the way one might rotate tapes. I've been using dump since 1989, when I had a Sun 386i. Both BackupPC and dump have their own support infrastructure. <http://dump.sourceforge.net/> <http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/>